T2020.102.475

Honolulu H.T.

June 6, 1920

Dear Alice:

Your welcome and interesting letter received. Yours is the first one I have gotten at this address. It seems like the mail is very slow in coming.

Did I write you in my last letter how sick I got on the boat? If so, I'll write it again. The first day, I only had a little headache but oh, the second, I was never so sick in my life, the ship rocking and my stomach rolling.

Yesterday, we made our first flight with the balloon. Capt. Felt and a major went in it. Such a time as we had with that balloon. The wind was blowing at the rate of about sixty miles an hour. The balloon would make a straight lunge for the ground, then go up with a lunge. If anybody was scared, Capt. Felt was.

As much good as I had to write about our barracks in the my other letter, that much less I have to write about them now. We are now living in tents. The wind blows and the dust flies throu the tent and everything gets so dirty, The dust around the camp is almost knee deep.

I can't get the other boys started to write that letter to the C.E. but, I'll try again and, if they don't do it, I will myself.

There is one of the finest beaches in the world here, (Waikiki). It is certainly a fine place to swim, but the water is rather salty and the salt doesn't agree with me very much.

What do you want for your birthday?

Tell Rev. Thomas I am going to church, and always will as long as there is a church to go to.

It is now almost time for the lights to go out, and I will have to close.

As ever, a true friend,

Carl Albers

P.S. Excuse this straight writing

the paper is crooked or I am.