Backseat Drivers

After Christmas 1969 we drove to California to Melissa Coffey's wedding.
Jim and Carolyn made us a huge box of homemade candies, and we enjoyed them for days. We drove to El Paso the first day. John and I, Mary Ann, John Dan, Margaret, and Nell. Spent the night and picked up Agnes there. The seven of us went on to the wedding.
Afterwards, Agnes flew home and the rest of us went to Disneyland. I think we were there a couple of days before heading home.
I remember on that trip there were a lot of us women. Some of us kept telling the driver where to turn and how to drive. John made a rule that only the person sitting next to him could give him instructions. We had a lot of fun about that.
As we drove out to California, we bought a basketful of grapefruit. When we came to some state line, California, I guess, the patrolmen told us we couldn't take the grapefruit into the next state. There was something in the rind of the fruit that was not to be spread.
We drove to the side of the road, and Agnes, Nell, Margaret, and John got busy peeling those grapefruit. When they were finished, we drove on into the next state.