Where to go for a Tour 
By harry WILKIN PERRY 
EPTEMBER and October are the most 
satisfactory months for automobile touring. 
Thousands of motorists begin their season’s 
wanderings in June, when vegetation is fresh, the 
dust is not heavy and the body and mind are in a 
state of vigor thoroughly to enjoy the beauties of 
scenery, the exhilarating motion of the machine and 
the oddities of character and customs met with in 
out-of-the-way places. Most persons, however, can¬ 
not spare time for touring in all of the summer and 
fall months, and tor such the months of September 
and October offer settled weather conditions, roads 
that have become smooth with the summer’s travel, 
escape from the heat and noise of the city, wonderful 
coloring in the autumn foliage in the mountain 
districts, practical freedom from mosquitoes at 
night in country villages and good bathing at both 
seaside and mountain resorts. 
Vacationing by automobile differs from the usual 
vacation trip in the very important fact that the one 
is peripatetic while with the other the journey is 
merely a means to an end—the location is the prime 
consideration and the pleasure of the vacation is 
made or spoiled by the conditions which exist in that 
one spot, whether it be a camp in the mountains or a 
bungalow by the sea. But with the automobile the 
scenery and conditions are constantly changing, and 
the tourist need not be long enough in one place to 
weary of it or be annoyed by quality or monotony of 
diet, noisiness or impertinent curiosity of fellow 
hotel guests, or oppressed by the heat or humidity. 
In the exclusiveness and freedom from proximity of 
other members of humanity which the automobile 
offers lies one of the chief delights of touring. 
The essentials of an enjoyable tour are congenial 
companions: a good car with good equipment, good 
roads, varied and attractive scenery, fair weather, 
good hotels and reliable road maps and guide books. 
The planning of a tour has much to do with its success 
but is in itself a pleasure. In a periodical having 
a national circulation no specific route can be laid out 
that would be available to a majority of the auto- 
mobilist readers, but some general suggestions may 
be offered that will perhaps prove helpful to a great 
many. 
Where to go is of course one of the first questions 
to arise. This must be decided individually accord¬ 
ing to circumstances. As all summer and early fall 
months are apt to be hot, however, a trip to the 
mountains or to the waterside offers the most attrac¬ 
tive solution. There is hardly a city east of the 
Mississippi River from which the mountains or 
some large body of water cannot be reached by 
automobile in a trip of two or three days, and the 
same statement holds true of most places west of 
Nebraska and Kansas and north of New Mexico 
and Arizona. The ideal trip would embrace visits 
to both mountain and shore resorts, and it is the 
proximity of mountain and sea together with well 
made roads, beautiful scenery and good hotels thai 
makes touring in the New England States so popular. 
Residents of Boston, New York and Philadelphia 
and all the intermediate cities have a decided advan¬ 
tage in this respect, as the seashore is directly at 
hand with its many excellent resorts, and the White 
Mountains of New Hampshire, the Berkshire Hills 
in Western Massachusetts, the Catskills in lower 
New York State, the Adirondacks and Lakes George 
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