knows it, they have everything in 
plumb comfort. Experienced tourists 
will literally come in, make camp, pre¬ 
pare and eat a meal, and go to bed be¬ 
fore their nearest neighbors, a family 
of greenhorns, have sorted out their 
duffle preparatory to putting up a tent. 
In the same measure, the advice of 
the old timer is to be taken against that 
of many others. The newcomer from 
the East, arriving in some town on the 
O-L-D Trail will assure the east bound 
westerner that the Trail is Awful, and 
growing worse, every mile. The fact 
of the matter is, the highways are 
growing better on the road toward the 
east. Compared to what the east-bound 
man, from The Coast has come over, 
the roads to the Missouri are good, 
across Iowa excellent, and splendid- 
regular boulevards beyond the Missis¬ 
sippi toward the Atlantic. 
“Dangerous but passable” describes 
thousands of miles of western high¬ 
ways. The rough stone-surfaced high¬ 
way of an eastern state would be of 
the highest improved type on long- 
stretches of transcontinental trail be¬ 
yond the Rockies. Thus when one in¬ 
quires about the road, it depends en 
tirely on what kind of tourist is answer¬ 
ing, how one shall receive the informa 
tion. A tourist is generally as good as 
he knows, as accurate as his experience 
and frame of mind. 
Chance acquaintances on the high¬ 
ways often lead to lasting friendships. 
Over the most difficult highways one is 
apt to join other parties. The result 
is, one gives up some of his own ideas 
of daily journey distances, camp ground 
attractiveness, and even wished-for iso 
lation for sake of additional safety in 
lonely stretches. The same kinds of 
people flock together — we vagabonds 
with automobiles, the work seekers with 
workers, the sight seers with travelers, 
the wealthy with the great. A com¬ 
mon link is the automobile. One will 
meet a string of eight or ten Fords. 
Often three or four Studebakers, 
Buicks, Chevrolets, Dodges, will run 
along group and group. 
The advantage of having several cars 
of the same make running together is 
obvious. Five or six drivers familiar 
with the same make of car can gen 
erally among them run down any mys¬ 
terious difficulty due to ignition, or 
mechanical loosening up, or other an 
noyance. Also, in the case of a break, 
unless of a bulky piece, one or other 
of several cars of the same make is 
apt to have a spare part covering the 
trouble. The pride that owners have in 
their own make of cars is common in a 
group of several owners and drivers, 
having the same make of machine. 
Doubtless a habit of mind or a tvpe of 
character is responsible for the selec¬ 
tion of this or that make of car, and 
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