This home movie documents the activities and daily lives of the Hennen family including various stops and family gatherings while driving to Arizona. The footage includes a family in their backyard (00:00-02:19), an outdoor family gathering with people eating large slices of watermelon (02:19-03:29), young boys playing (03:29-05:28), fixing a flat tire on the side of the road and driving toward Donner Summit (05:28-07:31). The film continues with a woman hanging laundry (07:31-08:55), Denison Dam and Lake Texoma (08:55-09:34), a family and young children at home (09:34-10:51), Easter egg hunting (10:51-11:35), and more scenes of family and children playing at home (11:35-12:52). The family's road trip continues with a visit to Sutter's Fort (12:52-13:48), desert landscapes shot from a moving car (13:48-15:02), packages inspected at the State of California Department of Agriculture Inspection Station (15:02-15:38), neighborhood children boarding a bus and playing outdoors (15:38-18:20), a sign for the Painted Desert Inn and desert landscapes (18:20-19:39), family outdoors posing for the camera and tossing a football (19:39-21:09), entering a snow covered Flagstaff, Arizona (21:09-23:42), and more footage shot from a moving car including a sign for the "Largest Rattlesnake in the World" and a horse-drawn wagon (23:42-25:29).

Letter from Robert Myer of Phoenix, Arizona. Myer expresses his distaste for and disappointment in the law force of Dallas, Texas. He asserts that those employed by the department would have been fired if they were working in a different part of the United States.