We took La Cosa to Death Valley during the kids' Thanksgiving break in 1953, and Bob hiked to the top of
a large hill to take this picture—there's a white circle around the truck. Next, he wrote "Merry Christmas from
Scotty's Castle, Death Valley" on the negative before printing the Christmas photos (I don't have any left).
We had a tradition of taking La Cosa to the desert over Thanksgiving and to Lake Havasu for Easter vacation.