Life — November 24, 1927 — page 11: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# All-America Travel Contest This page features a reader-participation contest from *Life* magazine. The premise: a character named "Kay Vernon" is traveling across the United States and writing letters describing her journey, but deliberately including factual errors and geographical inaccuracies. Readers are challenged to identify and correct these mistakes in exchange for cash prizes (weekly prizes of $75 and $25, with final grand prizes up to $400). The accompanying illustration shows a stylized woman traveler with luggage. The contest format was a common *Life* magazine engagement strategy—combining geography education with humor and the appeal of prize money during what appears to be the early-to-mid 20th century. Readers would need to fact-check Kay's claims about American cities and landmarks as she travels from Boston westward to Seattle.