will be to sit by on his heels, and watch 
the other fellow with a new style tent, 
a different arrangement for sleeping, 
and especially a new way of packing 
things in and on:a car. 
I know with what alacrity I changed 
from trot line fastenings to simple 
running-board strap and hook fasten- 
ings. Straps like trunk straps, or cot- 
ton bands, drawn through buckles with- 
out tongues, lash tents, suitcases, boxes, 
bags and bundles as nothing else does. 
The running-board folding fences serve 
nicely for some conditions, and board 
fences along the running-boards have 
their place. But for my kind of outfit, 
with tents and tarpaulins, suitcases in 
waterproof blankets or canvas con- 
tainers, I want straps, with hooks 
through them—of a type that can be 
had in most auto camping supply 
stores. 
But also please observe, that when 
one starts off on a tour it is of prime 
importance to watch the load. If one 
has had five or six runs with the load 
packed for touring conditions, the tour 
watchfulness: need not be so vigilant. 
But a load packed by some one who has 
had no previous practice may lose a 
lot of the load including an important 
part of the outfit. I lost a tent one 
time. On another occasion I lost maps. 
We lost a loose alligator-skin hand-bag. 
Tourists lose all kinds of things off 
their loads, simply from lack of ex- 
perience in packing. Or because of 
carelessness, after too much self-confi- 
dence has been gained! 
A practice trip to pack and balance 
the load is important. It will pay to 
spend all of one day, perhaps two days, 
driving off across country, and stopping 
at intervals to tighten up on the straps 
or line fastenings, to remodel the load, 
getting the weight low down, getting 
the outfit shaped for meals, for camps, 
for balance, and for comfort. A few 
hours’ alternate driving and repacking 
on the first day of a tour may save 
weeks of discomfort. And if that prac- 
tice day is followed by early camps, 
and perhaps four or five days’ “loafing” 
along, getting the knack of good camps 
and good loads, then the Transcon- 
tinental tour becomes a_ thoroughly 
practical trip, clear across, instead of 
having three weeks of difficulties, a 
week of suspense, dreading “what is to 
happen next,” and then a week of 
genuine comfort and joy. 
It will pay to go forth on a rainy 
afternoon, after supper, to make camp, 
if one is going to tour in the eastern 
or southern states. The time comes 
along the Atlantic and Gulf seaboard 
when one must find a campground, put 
up camp and prepare supper in a rain. 
Previous experience of this kind, delib- 
erately sought and tried out, is of in- 
estimable value. 
Page 437 
In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. 
Foresight is helpful, even for prac- 
tice trips. We have found that having 
an under-cover meal all ready at all 
times in a car saves hungry _ 
A can of salmon, a loaf of bread, salad 
dressing, chipped beef, canned beans— 
anything that serves well as a lunch 
will sometimes be found serving a gen- 
erous purpose. Even a tired party of 
tourists sometimes has no ambition to 
make a full meal, cooking things, how- 
ever propitious the other circumstances. 
Practical foresight for such things is 
greatly helped and trained by the emer- 
gencies which are sought on one-night 
and two-night preliminary expeditions. 
I can only suggest the varied pur- 
poses of practice in touring. The prac- 
tice trip may easily become memorable 
as opening the way for year-round op- 
portunities to utilize the spread of 
hours between a day’s work and the 
beginning of the next day. I have my- 
self missed countless such easily-ob- 
tained experiences. I have also seized 
such happy occasions out of the thin- 
nest of air, on the least possible excuse. 
Practice in mere camping and road- 
side details is but a small part of the 
return from the short trips before 
making long trips, which I here suggest. 
The minds of tourists need the ap- 
proach. For a city man and city 
woman to make the leap from apart- 
ment or home comforts into the rough 
and difficult camp-conditions is to 
endanger the success of the trip, merely 
because of the sudden shock, the revul- 
sion of the mind against the smoke in 
the eyes, the food so different, the 
nights so trying. 
Now and then a brief interval of this 
outdoor life will prepare the mind, as 
well as make skilled the hands for long 
and varied experiences in the outdoors. 
The transition is great. However at- 
tractive the imagination makes the 
woods, fields, trails, and mountains, one 
should be prepared to find the attrac- 
tion that lies in overcoming difficulties. 
Even a flat tire in gumbo mud need not 
dismay—if one has heretofore changed 
a tire under such conditions. Some of 
my own fondest experiences have been 
developed in due course out of appre- 
ciation of what at first was sheer 
misery. 
In practice, studied and viewed from 
all sides, lies the whole secret of mak- 
ing the most of the outdoors, auto tour- 
ing or any other kind of experience. 
Every hour of preliminary experiment- 
ing, study, practice and trial of equip- 
ment under service conditions will save 
a day or a week of difficulties due to 
ill-chosen, badly packed, or poorly 
adapted camping and other outfit. 
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