Let Your 
Budget 
Be Your 
Guide 
By KATHRYN HULME 
thousand motor campers 
crossed the Mississippi, head- 
ing either east or west on our trans- 
continental highways. Of these, 
some had plenty of money and 
few worries, some had a medium 
amount and fewer worries, and 
some had a little money and a 
| AST summer some twenty 
budget to guide them by. Those 
with fat wallets flew along 
uninterrupted on their vacation 
pilgrimage. Those with fair - sized 
wallets lived sumptuously while the 
money lasted; but they had to stop 
over a month in some tiresome little 
western town to earn enough to 
take them home. And those with 
slender wallets and a _ budget to 
guide them by, rolled serenely to 
their destinations, doing en _ route 
all the things they’d planned _ to 
do, with never the hazard of “going 
broke.” 
Traveling “on a budget” may per- 
haps be entirely lacking in artistic 
abandon, but its compensations are 
many. You always know where your 
next meal is coming from, and when 
you’re out...say in Minnesota, 
where pork chops are thick and juicy 
and where home - made 
fruit pies drown in their 
own rich purple syrup, 
a budget assuring you 
your next meal is quite 
handy. Or again, when 
you’ve been camping by 
the roadside for several 
nights in succession, it’s 
nice to discover that, by 
your reckoning, you can 
PULAU eines ae nolteleeac 
the next town and im- 
merse your dusty carcass 
in a tub of hot water 
and then stretch out 
ecstatically on clean cool 
sheets. Let your budget 
be your guide... but 
first, of course, you 
have to make your 
budget. 

Yellowstone Canyon 
THIS is the story of how two girls 
last summer motored from New 
York to San Francisco at an average 
daily expense of $9.57, which included 
hotels, food, gasoline and all other 
unexpected expenditures such as blow- 
outs, breakdowns, and various towings 
to the nearest garage. They were 
about six weeks on the road, they trav- 
eled 5,444 miles, and they never once 
wired home a hurry-call for money. 
They had a roadster and something 
less than five hundred dollars, and, 
tucked away in the side-pocket of the 
car, a tiny account-book on whose back 
pages was a copy of the budget they 
had made. They knew in advance how 
far they could go on the money they 
had, how many days they could spend 

Mammoth Terraces in Yellowstone 
A System of Vacation 
Efficiency 
Designed to Eliminate 
Financial Worry— 
and 
It Works 
on the road and how many horse- 
back trips they could have in 
Yellowstone and Glacier Park. 
Their first step in compiling the 
budget was to decide on the route 
they would follow. Since they were 
traveling in June, they decided to 
stick to the northern route, taking 
in the big industrial cities of the 
East and Middle West—Pittsburgh, 
Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Chicago, 
Milwaukee, St. Paul and Minne- 
apolis—thence through the Black Hills 
of South Dakota, northward over the 
Big Horn to Yellowstone, north again 
to Glacier Park, then across the border 
to Banff and Lake Louise, back into 
the States by way of Bonner’s Ferry, 
Idaho, westward through Spokane to 
Seattle, and finally straight down the 
Pacific coast, through Portland, to 
San Francisco. With the aid of blue- 
books and mileage maps, which give 
very accurate point-to-point mileages, 
they calculated the trip would be 
5,500 miles. 
HE next step was to compute the 
amount of oil and gasoline that 
would be used. They knew that on 
long runs they could safely count on 
getting twenty miles to 
the gallon of gas—hence 
their figure, 275 gallons 
for a 5,500-mile trip. 
Counting on 70 miles to 
the pint of oil, they found 
they would use 39 quarts 
on the trip. Twenty- 
seven cents a gallon was 
a reasonable average for 
gasoline on a_ transcon- 
tinental trip last sum- 
mer; in the East prices 
were 26c. and 27c. the 
gallon, lower in the Mid- 
dle West, up to 50c. a 
gallon in the National 
Parks and in Canada, 
and on the Pacific coast 
it sold as low as 15c. and 
17c. Oil was generally 
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