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expect to do. The tourist east of the 
Mississippi, north of the Ohio, having 
main routes mostly of stone, concrete, 
or at least good gravel, may well figure 
on far greater mileage than elsewhere in 
the country. But even in these states 
(detours and digressions from the main 
roads may mean just as bad roads as 
anywhere else in the country. 
My own plan with a medium weight 
seven-passenger, six-cylinder car has 
been to reckon my gait at from eighty 
to a hundred miles a day average and 
H I made the west-bound transcontinental 
in forty-two days, the east-bound in 
twenty-eight, and the diagonal from cen¬ 
tral New York to Texas in twenty-four 
days gross; that is 100 miles a day net— 
constant driving, but sundry mechanical 
difficulties caused delays. 
Generally speaking, for every seven 
days on the road an automobile should 
have a day’s tinkering and oiling. This 
means more than an hour a day. It can 
be given the car daily, in two half days, 
or on one day. Here, again, cars differ 
widely. Also, the extraordinary difficul¬ 
ties such as breaks, smashes and baffling 
stops, due to obscure motor troubles, wir¬ 
ing and driving parts may claim a day, 
or even two or three days in a garage. 
Starting with a car in first class condi¬ 
tion one may have no trouble, not even 
tire troubles, for several weeks and in 
going thousands of miles. Cars have 
made the transcontinental without being- 
touched for repairs. Automobiles of all 
makes often perform wonderfully under 
stress of necessity. We came from the 
Pacific to the Mohawk valley with only 
tire trouble and a baffling tail-light short 
circuit. 
Comfort, food and rest are more im¬ 
portant than mileage. We tried early 
and late starting, morning, noon and 
night “main meals,” schedules as to 
miles, as to hours driven and the like. 
We found that it was generally better 
to take it rather easy, without worrying 
about starting or stopping or of the miles 
made per day. We started on the west¬ 
bound transcontinental (not knowing it 
would be more than a few hundred miles 
jaunt toward the Mississippi) at 6 o’clock 
in the afternoon. Returning eastward 
we started toward mid-day. The other 
day heading for Texas (toward which 
I started to walk twenty-odd years ago), 
we left home at 4 o’clock p. m., starting 
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is enough for any one day. And the 
thirty-five, sixty or eighty miles added 
to that day comprises a good day’s work 
when camp is made. 
i,_ 
I) AY after day the trip changes, the 
. days vary, till at last doubts and 
experiments give way to genuine effi¬ 
ciency and schedules are developed out 
of experience. Thus, breakfast is a mat¬ 
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ing on the menu. While breakfast is 
preparing, camp is broken and the load 
made. But work ceases when the grub 
is ready. Then dishes are washed and 
the load completed. 
We make our getaway from camp in 
from one to two hours. Then from three 
to five hours driving follows. The rate 
may be eight or eighteen miles an hour, 
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