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well and left for Trcutdaleon the Columbia, where we came out on 
the Columbia fiver Highway, "his is one of the great roads of the 
~oiId. A broad ribbon of concrete, it* unwinds its several hundreds 
of miles along the banks of the great river. At ^routdale we are on 
the Fest' side and things are green, but so on we pass through the gap 
which the river has cut through the cascades and the scene and 
growth changes. The north sir re of the riteer is a series of giant 
terraces, castles, fortifications, lava flow on lava flow from the 
water to the sucir.it of the plain above- It is a wonderful sight* 
Ate Celilo the Indians were catching salmon under the falls and. now 
and then we could see the f^lash of one's sides as he -was lifted 
from the foam in the big dipnets. At last that evening we came to 
m he Dalles -’here the riteer cuts its ^ay through a narrow channel, 
iust a narrow slit in the rock* Here we spent the night at the Munic¬ 
ipal Auto damp. It was a bench on the river bank strewn -with great 
leigos and blocks of lavan and furnished with cookstoves, -ood, 
water, a small store and many other conveniences. It was n.y first 
experience with a public camp and after trying all the most com¬ 
fortable looking rocks I rented a small house^ith a spring and mat¬ 
tress and electric light for the extravagant sum of .50. This made 
#1.00 for our night's lodging, the entrance fee being the same. So 
you see we had quite a balance left from what we got from our hard¬ 
ware man- I have found since I have had a car that it is a very 
good, plan to establish a line of credit wherever one may go, if 
possible- One never knows what may happen, to repair an accident 
may take every cent you have and then where are you# Consequently 
I always try to cash a check in a new town if I have to buy anything- 
The man has some doubts, though he lets you have the cash, so he 
takes particular notice of’ you, wheBeas if you pail cash he would 
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never think of you again. So much for my philosophy of travel. 
The next morning we left "’’he Dalles and ran up the river 
some 10 or 15 miles to a road running south from the Highway and 
