CHAPTER XXXII

ON THE SUBJECT OF CLOTHES

We had far too many! They were a perfect nuisance! Yet each traveler needs a heavy coat, a thin coat or sweater, a duster and a rug or two, and there is a huge bundle already. Then possibly a dressing-case for each, and surely a big valise of some sort, either suit-case or motor trunk. Added to this are innumerable necessities—Blue Books, a camera, food paraphernalia, an extra hat—most women want an extra hat, and men, too, for that matter—and though goggles and veils are worn most of the time, they have to be put somewhere. All of these last items go too wonderfully in a silk bag such as I described as having been given us. It was of taffeta, made exactly like an ordinary pillow-case with a running string at one end; it was about twenty inches wide and thirty inches long. E. M.’s straw hat, Celia’s extra hat, and mine all went in it, beside veils and gloves and other odds and ends. It weighed nothing; it went on top of everything else and, tied through the handle of a dressing-case by its own strings, was in no danger of blowing out. Why hats traveled in it without crushing like broken eggshells, I don’t know, but they _did_.

Offering advice on clothes for a motor trip is much like offering advice on what to wear walking up the street. But on the chance that in a perfectly commonplace list there may be an item of use to someone, I have inventoried below a list of things that I personally should duplicate, if I were taking the trip over again:

First: A coat and _pleated skirt_ of a material that does not show creases. Maltreat a piece first, to see. With this one suit, half a dozen easily washed blouses and a sleeveless overwaist of the material of the skirt, which, worn over a chiffon underblouse, makes a whole dress, instead of an odd shirtwaist and skirt. These underblouses are merely separate chiffon linings with sleeves and collars, and half a dozen can be put in the space of a pound candy-box—yet give the same service as six waists to your dress.

On an ordinary motoring trip such as over the various well-worn tours of Northeastern States or of the Pacific Coast or Europe, where you arrive in the early afternoon with plenty of time to rest for a while and dress for dinner, several restaurant or informal evening-dresses may be useful, but crossing the continent, unless you stop over several days in cities where you have friends, in which case you can send a trunk ahead, it is often late when you arrive, and any dressing further than getting clean and tidy does not strongly appeal to you. Besides one suit and blouses, a very serviceable dress to take would be a simple house dress of some sort of uncreasable silk. There is a Chinese crêpe that _nothing_ wrinkles—not to be confused with many varieties of crêpes de chine that crease like sensitive plants at a mere touch.

If I expected to go through towns where I might be dining out, I would add an evening dress of black jet or cream lace—two materials that stand uncreasingly any amount of packing. Otherwise my third and last would be a silk skirt and jacket—the skirt of black and white up and down stripes with white chiffon blouses, and the jacket black. The taffeta should be of the heavy soft variety that does not crack and muss. The skirt should be unlined and cut with straight seams gathered on a belt; a dress that folds in a second of time and in a few inches of space. With the coat on, it is a street dress; coat off (with a high girdle to match the skirt), it is whatever the top of the blouse you wear makes it.

A duster is, of course, indispensable. A taffeta one is very nice, especially when you want something better-looking, but on a long journey taffeta cracks, dirt constantly sifts through it and it can’t be washed as linen can. In the high altitudes of the Southwest, a day of tropical heat is followed by a penetratingly cold night. The thermometer may not be actually low and the air seem soft and delicious, but it sifts through fabrics in the way a biting wind can, and you are soon thankful if you have brought a heavy wrap. When you need it, nothing is as comfortable as fur. I took an old sealskin coat and I don’t know what I should have done without it. On my personal list, a mackintosh has no place. If it rains, the top is up, and to keep wind out, I’d rather have fur.

Nor are shoes under ordinary fortunate circumstances important. But on my list are “velvet slippers.” Scarcely your idea of appropriate motoring footwear, but if your seat is the front one over the engine, you will find velvet the coolest material there is—cooler than buckskin, or suède, or kid or canvas—much! And if you want to walk, your luggage, after all, is with you.

Every woman knows the kind of hat she likes to wear. But does every woman realize, which Celia and I did not, that a hat to be worn nine or eleven hours across a wind-swept prairie must offer no more resistance than the helmet of a race driver? A helmet, by the way, made to fit your head and face is ideally comfortable. A hat that the wind catches very little won’t bother you in a few hours, but at the end of ten, your head will feel stone-bruised. An untrimmed toque, very small and close, and tied on with a veil is just about as comfortable as a helmet. It has the disadvantage of having no brim, but yellow goggles mitigate the glare, and it is the brim, even though it be of the inverted flower-pot turn-down, that is a pocket for wind that at the end of a few hours pulls uncomfortably.

[Illustration: ON THE FAMOUS “STAKED PLAINS” OF THE SOUTHWEST]

A real suggestion to the woman who minds getting sunburnt, is an orange-colored chiffon veil. It must be a vivid orange that has a good deal of red in it. Even with the blazing sun of New Mexico and California shining straight in your face, a single thickness of orange-colored chiffon will keep you from burning at all. If you can’t see through chiffon, but mind freckling or burning, to say nothing of blistering, sew an orange-colored veil across the lower rims of your goggles and wear orange-colored glasses. Cut a square out of the top so as to leave no sun space on your temples, and put a few gathers over the nose to allow it to fit your face. Fasten sides over hat like any veil. The Southwestern sun will burn your arms through sleeves of heavy crêpe de chine, but the thinnest material of orange—red is next best—protects your skin in the same way that the ruby glass of a lantern in a photographer’s developing room protects a sensitive plate.

[Illustration]

Wear the thinnest and least amount of underwear that you can feel decently clad in, so as to get as many fresh changes as possible in the least space, because of the difficulty in stopping often to have things laundered. What they put in the clothes in Southern California I don’t know, but in any mixture of linen and silk, the silk has been apparently dipped in blue dye. A cream-colored silk-and-linen shirt of E. M.’s that happened to have the buttonholes worked in silk, is now a stippled green with buttonholes of navy blue. It is rather putting your belongings to the test of virtue—as those which are pure silk wash perfectly well. If I were going again I should take everything I could of thin crêpe de chine. It seems to be very easy to launder, and is everywhere returned in a clean and comfortably soft condition, whereas linen often comes back uncertain as to color and feeling like paper.

Although of more service on boats or trains, or in Europe where private baths are not often to be had, a black or dark silk kimono and a black lace bed-cap, if you ever wear bed-caps, are invaluable assets to anyone who dislikes walking through public corridors in obvious undress. My own especial treasures, acquired after many unsuccessful attempts, are a wrapper cut the pattern of an evening wrap, of very soft, black silk brocade. It rolls up as easily as any kimono, and takes scarcely any space. The cap is a very plain “Dutch” one, of thread lace with a velvet ribbon around it. A wrapper that isn’t obviously a wrapper, is sometimes very convenient. You could make believe it was an evening wrap, if you were very hard pressed.

And above everything, in traveling you want clothes that are uncomplicated. The ones that you get into most easily are the ones you put on most often. Underblouses, such as I have described above, are a perfect traveler’s delight, because there is no basting in, or trying to clean collars, cuffs, etc. A fresh underblouse with lace trimming, rolled like a little bolster, measures one and a half inches by seven.

And remember: Plain skirts crease in half-moons across the back, pleated or very full ones don’t. An orange veil prevents sunburn. Western climate is very trying to the skin, so that you need cold cream even if you don’t use it at home. A lace veil of a rather striking pattern is at times of ugliness a great beautifier.

Clothes for men are a little out of my province. E. M. had some khaki flannel shirts, breeches and puttees that seemed to be very serviceable. At least he was able to spend any amount of time rolling on the road under the machine, and still brush off fairly well. He had a sweater and an ulster and two regular suits of clothes to change alternately at the end of the day. His evening clothes, tennis flannels, etc., were sent through by express.

To send one hundred and fifty pounds from New York to San Francisco costs fifteen dollars.

FOOD EQUIPMENT

Don’t take a big, heavy, elaborate lunch basket. If you want to know what perfect comfort is, get a tin breadbox with a padlock, and let it stay on the floor of the tonneau. In the bottom of it you can keep tins of potted meats, jars of jam, and a box of crackers, some milk chocolate, or if you like better, nuts and raisins. And on top you can put everything you lay your hands on! Books, sweaters, medicine case, and a pack of oiled paper to wrap luncheons in. We had a solidified alcohol lamp, a ten-cent kettle, and thermos bottles, a big thermos food jar, which we filled with ice cream if the day was hot, and one of the bottles with cocoa if it was cool. Coffee (if you put cream in it) has always a corked, musty taste, but cocoa is not affected, neither is soup. Food tastes better if you don’t mix your bottles. Keep the jar for ice cream, if you like ice cream, a bottle for cocoa or soup, and two for ice or hot water. On long runs in the Far West, a canvas water bag is convenient. You can buy one at almost any garage, and it keeps water quite wonderfully fresh and cool.

On top of our permanent supplies we put the daily luncheons we took from the hotels: sandwiches, boiled eggs and fruit and the above-mentioned cocoa or ice cream. Cocoa we bought at the hotels, but our favorite place to buy ice cream was at a soda-water fountain.

The tins in our bread box we hoarded as a miser hoards gold—as a surplus that we might need to keep us alive; and, as is the common end of most misers, when we got to San Francisco and our journey was over, the greater part was still left—to give away.

EXPENSES

The following pages of actual expenses copied out of our diaries may be useful as a table of comparison by which other travelers can form an idea of what their own are likely to be.

For some the trip will cost more, but on the other hand, it can be done for very much less. In every case we had the kind of rooms that are assigned to those who, without questioning the price, asks for “good outside rooms with baths.” Undoubtedly, there were in many cases more expensive ones to be had, but in all cases there were cheaper ones.

Our restaurant bills, however, were comparatively light. We seldom ordered more than three dishes each, and the restaurant charges to people of very substantial appetite, will run more rather than less. On extras, of course, anyone could add or subtract indefinitely, but the details noted may serve as a scale of current charges.

The garage bills speak for themselves. Each man knows how far his own car can go on a gallon, and how often he wants it washed. No one can count his repairs in advance, but our garage bills, however, were certainly very much heavier than average. E. M.’s car is at best an expensive one to run, and on this trip it was at its worst, having been driven without overhauling for two years.

DAILY EXPENSE ACCOUNT

PREPARATORY EXPENSES

6 Repub. staggered tires, 6 tubes, and put on $347.04 Warner speedometer 51.00

FIRST DAY’S RUN, NEW YORK TO ALBANY

(MAP NO. 1)

PERSONAL MOTOR

_New York._ _New York._ 49th Street Garage. Lunched at home. 15 gals. gas $2.70

160 miles (should have been 150).

_Albany._ Ten Eyck Hotel. _Albany._ Albany Garage Co.

2 hallboys carrying up 18 gals. gas $2.70 luggage $ .50 Storage 1.00 Dinner, for three 4.60 Washing 1.50 Tip .50 1 gal. oil .80 “Movies” .30 Postcards .10 Stamps .10 Soda water .30 Telephone home .90 Double room and bath (hotel full, couldn’t get three singles) 5.00 Single room (no bath) 2.00 Coffee and toast for two (in room) .80 Tip .20 Breakfast (E. M.) .70 Tip .25 Luggage carried down .50 Tip, chambermaid .75

SECOND DAY’S RUN, ALBANY TO FORT PLAIN

(MAP NO. 2)

_Fort Plain, N. Y._ _Fort Plain._

Lunch, for three $1.50 Broke bearing; towed to Tip .30 Hoffman & Adams’ garage $3.00 Chocolate, postcards, etc. .40 Hoffman & Adams’ garage at 3 R. R. tickets to Utica 2 .22 _Fort Plain_. New bearing valves $9.09 Time labor 12.30 9 gals. oil 1.15 Gaskets, telephone, etc. 3.00 (A remarkably good garage; intelligent, efficient and good-natured men.)

_Utica._ Hotel Utica. _Utica._ Hotel Utica garage.

3 fares Utica Hotel omnibus $.45 10 gals. gas $1.20 Telephone home 1.20 2 qts. oil .40 Dinner (delicious) for three 3.50 Washing 1.50 Tip .40 Storage 1.00 Tip, 1 hallboy (most of (Wind shield broken in garage.) luggage left in the car) .25 “Movies” .30 Soda water .30 Double room (very big, and lovely; did not wire ahead and could not get three singles and baths) $6.00 Single and bath (small but attractive) 2.50 Coffee for two (in room) .90 Tip .20 Breakfast (E. M.) .90 Tip .25 Telephone home 1.20 Lunch (for two) 1.60 Tip .30 Valet, pressing one suit, E. M. 1.00 Hired motor 3.00 Tip .50

Second night and morning Utica about same as above.

THIRD DAY’S RUN, UTICA TO BUFFALO

(MAPS NOS. 2 AND 3)

Lunched _Geneva_. Hotel Seneca. _Geneva._

Lunch for 3 (very good and 2 gals. oil $1.20 beautifully served) $3.00 (218 miles.) Tip .35

_Buffalo._ Hotel Statler. _Buffalo._ Hotel Statler garage.

2 hallboys carrying up New glass in windshield $4.00 luggage .50 Storage 1.00 Dinner (for three) $3.95 2 gals. gas 2.60 Tip .40 3 single rooms (very nice and each with bath) 7.50 Tip, chambermaid .75 Telegram to Erie .26 Sundries .80

FOURTH DAY. BUFFALO TO CLEVELAND. BROKEN BY STOPOVER IN ERIE

(MAP NO. 4)

Lunch at _Niagara Falls_. Drove out to _Niagara Falls_, (At R. R. lunch counter to back after lunch, and to save time) $.50 _Erie, Pa._, 93 miles. Tip .20

_Erie, Pa._ Hotel Lawrence. _Erie._ Star Garage.

Hallboys up and down 1.00 Storage $1.00 Chambermaid .75 10 gals. gas 1.30 Dinner 4.95 2 gals. oil 1.20 Tip .50 (Very nice garage.) 3 single rooms with baths 9.00 Coffee and toast (in room) for one .65 Breakfast, C. and E. M. 1.60 Tip .25 Telegrams and sundries 1.00 Lunch (for three) 3.15 Tip .35

_Cleveland._ Hotel Statler. _Cleveland_, 102 miles.

Dinner (three) 4.80 Tip $.50 Hotel’s Garage. Theater (three) 6.00 Storage $1.00 Ice-cream sodas .30 10 gals. gas 1.30 3 rooms with baths (lovely) 13.50 1 qt. oil .20 Coffee in room (2) .80 Tip .20 _Toledo_, 120 miles. “Club” breakfast, E. M. .75 Tip .25 Valet, press two suits (E. M.) 2.00 All tips—2 boys up .50 Down .50 Chambermaid .75

FIFTH DAY’S RUN, CLEVELAND TO TOLEDO

(MAP NO. 5)

_Cleveland_

Lunched Statler $3.75 _Very_ reasonable! Most delicious food.

_Toledo._ Hotel Secor. _Toledo._ United Garage.

Dinner 3.40 Storage $.75 Tip .40 12 gals. gas. (15c.) 1.80 “Movies” .30 Wash and polish 1.50 Ice-cream soda .30 Fill grease cups .75 Telegrams, newspapers, etc. .80 Pair of pliers .50 3 rooms, 2 baths 10.50 Coffee and toast (for two) .70 Tip .20 Usual tips, hallboys 1.00 Chambermaid .75 Telegram to _South Bend_ .26

SIXTH DAY’S RUN, TOLEDO TO SOUTH BEND

(MAP NO. 6)

Lunch _Bryan_ Christman Hotel (3) $2.25 Tip .25

_South Bend._ Hotel Oliver. _South Bend._ Lincoln Garage.

Dinner $4.10 Storage $.75 Tip .40 1 gal. oil .80 3 rooms, 3 baths 9.00 17 gals. gas 2.38 Coffee and toast (2), breakfast (1) 1.90 Usual tips 1.75 Sundries .80

SEVENTH DAY’S RUN, SOUTH BEND TO CHICAGO

(MAP NO. 7)

Chicken dinners and tip $1.75

_Chicago._ The Blackstone. _Chicago._ “Down Town” Garage.

4 bellboys (or porters) Storage, three days $2.25 luggage up $1.00 Ground valves 6.75 [6]Dinner for two (E. M. 2 spark plugs 2.00 out) and tip 4.00 Wash and polish (3 days) 6.00 Theater (2) 5.00 17 gals. gas (13c.) 2.21 Telegram .52 2 qts. oil .40 Coffee (2) and tip 1.10 20 gals. gas 2.60 Breakfast, E. M .90 1 gal. oil .80 Tip .25 [6]Lunch (2) 2.60 Tip .30 Beautiful big double twin beds and dressing room 7.00 Lovely small, single room and bath (E. M.) 3.50 Laundry 4.75 Valet 2.00 Tailor, pressing two dresses 2.00 Average one day’s expenses, less extras than above. Extras bought in Chicago: Supply of potted meats, etc. 9.35 At Woolworth’s: Kettle .10 4 doz. plates .20 Oiled paper .10 2 doz. spoons .10 Solid alcohol, lamp, saucepan (complete) 1.25 Bread box 3.45 Padlock .30

EIGHTH DAY’S RUN, CHICAGO TO ROCHELLE

(MAP NO. 8)

Stopped by mud at _Rochelle, Ill._, 77 miles, May 6-7.

_Rochelle, Ill._ Collier Inn. _Rochelle._ Garage next door to Inn.

(Typical day.) Storage, two days $1.00 (No bellboys.) Wash car 1.50 3 telegrams $1.48 Chains (2) 3.60 3 rooms with bath, one at 8 gals. gas 1.20 $3, two at $2.50, including board $8.00 Tips to waitress .75 Tip to chambermaid .50 “Movies,” etc. .80

Left _Rochelle_, May 8

EIGHTH DAY’S RUN, CONTINUED. ROCHELLE TO DAVENPORT

(MAP NO. 8)

Lunched _Rochelle_.

_Davenport, Iowa._ Black _Davenport._ Black Hawk Hawk Hotel. Hotel’s garage.

Dinner (3) $3.40 10 gals. gas $2.20 Tip .40 1 gal. oil .75 Hallboys, luggage up Storage (night charge) .50 and down 1.00 Wash car 1.50 (Went down to river bank and spent _nothing_.) Started on road of mud to Enormous twin-bed room and _Des Moines_. We went to bath, very attractive _Cedar Rapids_, but as it is furnishing 4.50 out of the course between Single room and bath 1.50 _Davenport_ and does not (Best rooms for least price of belong on this route, it is any hotel we encountered.) omitted. There was an Breakfast .60 A1 garage there, but our Tip .25 experience in mud cost: Coffee and toast (2) .80 Vulcanizing 3 tires $2.25 Tip .20 Take off radiator, repair gear case 5.60 Car in shop (no storage), wash 2.00 20 gals. gas 4.40 1 gal. oil .75

NINTH DAY’S RUN, DAVENPORT TO DES MOINES VIA CEDAR RAPIDS

(MAP NO. 9)

_Des Moines._ Chamberlain Hotel. _Des Moines._ Bernhard & Turner Auto Co.

Tips, bellboys, etc., as Vulcanizing tire $.75 usual $1.75 Storage .50 Drive in the converted 20 gals. gas. (22c.) 4.40 jitney 5.00 2 qts. oil .30 Dinner (3) 3.75 Tip .35 Breakfast, E. M. .75 Tip .25 Sundries .80 Coffee and toast (in room) (2) 1.10 2 single rooms (bath between) 5.50 1 single room and bath 2.50 Lunch to take with us 2.25 Ice cream .30

TENTH DAY’S RUN, DES MOINES TO OMAHA

(MAP NO. 10)

_Omaha._ Hotel Fontanelle. _Omaha._ Guy L. Smith Garage. (Typical day.)

Hallboys, porters, Storage (2 days) $1.50 chambermaid $1.75 20 gals. gas 4.40 Dinner (3) 3.80 1 gal. oil .80 Tip .40 3 single rooms and baths (at $3.50) (lovely) 10.50 Coffee (1) .30 Tip .15 Breakfast (E. M.) .50 Tip .20 Lunch, ladies’ dining room (2) 2.70 Lunch (E. M.), club lunch, men’s café .60 Tip .25 “Movies,” magazines, soda water, etc. 1.30 Lunch to take with us 1.80 Ice cream .40

ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH DAYS’ RUN, OMAHA TO NORTH PLATTE

(MAPS NOS. 11 AND 12)

Lunch in car. Independent Garage, _Grand Island_.

15 gals. gas $3.30

_North Platte._ Union Pacific _North Platte._ J. S. Davis Auto Hotel. Co.

3 rooms (no baths), supper Storage .50 and breakfast for three $7.50 17 gals. gas. (22c.) 3.74 Tips, postcards, etc. 1.35 1 gal. oil .60 Lunch to take with us 1.60

THIRTEENTH DAY’S RUN, NORTH PLATTE TO CHEYENNE

(MAP NO. 13)

_Cheyenne, Wyo._ Plains _Cheyenne._ Plains Hotel garage. Hotel (brand new).

Tips, as usual $1.75 Storage $.50 Dinner and tip 3.85 20 gals. gas 4.40 3 single rooms and bath 9.00 2 gals. oil 1.20 Coffee and toast (in room, for two) .90 Breakfast (E. M.) 1.00

FOURTEENTH DAY’S RUN, CHEYENNE TO COLORADO SPRINGS

(MAP NO. 14)

Lunch _Denver_. Brown’s Palace Hotel $3.60

_Colorado Springs._ Antlers _Colorado Springs._ Mark Hotel. Sheffel Motor Co. (highest class garage).

Usual tips $1.75 Take off pan, stop leak, crank An average dinner (3) 4.80 case and gaskets $8.80 Drive over “high drive” Vulc. case 4.50 (motors not allowed) Greasing and tightening bolts. (for 3) 6.00 7 cups grease 1.40 Tip to driver .50 1 pt. kerosene .05 Enormous double room with 1 pt. cylinder oil .05 dressing room, bath 6.00 3 days’ storage 1.50 Single room and bath 3.50 35 × 4 B. L. Republic red Coffee and toast (in room) .70 tube 7.35 Tip .25 4½ B. O. patch .90 (Especially attractively served.) 22 gals. gas 3.30 Breakfast (E. M.) (averaged) .95 3 gals. oil 2.40 Tip .25 Valet (pressing all our clothes) 8.00 Laundry 6.20

FIFTEENTH DAY’S RUN, COLORADO SPRINGS TO TRINIDAD

(MAP NO. 15)

Lunched, _Pueblo_. Vail Hotel $3.00 _Trinidad._ Hotel Cardenas Trinidad Novelty Works Co. (our first of the Harvard chain of hotels).

Am. plan, 3 good rooms with Storage $.50 3 baths and good “American 14 gals. gas. (15c.) 2.10 cooking” meals ($4.50) $13.50 2 qts. oil .40 $1.50 deducted for lunch we were not to have. _Las Vegas_, 145 miles. Tips 1.75 Incidentals, movies, etc. 1.30 Lunch to take with us 1.60

_Las Vegas._ The Castaneda. Las Vegas Auto Co. (Did not telegraph ahead, so could not get baths).

3 rooms ($3.25) $9.75 Storage $.50 American plan (lunch deducted). 15 gals. gas. 2.50 Lunch to take with us 1.50 Tips 1.75 Telegrams, sundries 2.50

SEVENTEENTH DAY’S RUN, LAS VEGAS TO ALBUQUERQUE

(MAP NO. 17)

Lunched _Santa Fé_. (Own lunch.)

_Albuquerque._ Hotel Alvarado. Santa Fé Transcontinental Garage.

Usual tips $1.75 2 men, 1½ hours, patching Telegrams and sundries 2.80 muffler and exhaust and 3 delightful rooms, 3 baths, tightening bolts, etc. $2.25 supper and breakfast ($4.25 each) 12.75 Extra amount of food to take: Eggs .60 Cake .80 Sandwiches 2.10 Cocoa .20 Ice cream .30

EIGHTEENTH DAY’S RUN, ALBUQUERQUE TO WINSLOW

(MAP NO. 18)

Leave _Albuquerque_. Out in _Albuquerque._ Coleman Blank desert. Garage (A 1 garage).

2 men, 4 hours each (night labor, double rate), mending leak in radiator, taking off exhaust, filling grease cups, etc. $6.00 1 front spring shackle bolt .80 18 gals. gas in tank 5.40 10 gals. in cans 3.00 4 gals. oil 2.80 (First-class garage.)

_Winslow, Ariz._ Harvey Hotel. _Winslow._

Rooms, including meals $10.50 Car shipped, via A. T. & S. F. R. Tips (most of luggage R. Freight to _Los Angeles_. shipped with car) 1.25 Perfect system for motor 3 tickets _Winslow_ to shipment, no crating and no _Los Angeles_ 65.85 delay. Freight charge $151.20 Extra tickets _Williams_ to _Grand Canyon_ 22.50

BY TRAIN, WINSLOW TO GRAND CANYON

(MAP NO. 19)

Lunch, _Williams_ $3.30 Car on freight.

_Grand Canyon, Ariz._ El Tovar Hotel.

2 rooms, bath between $10.00 1 room and bath 5.00 Including meals. Mule down _Angel Trail_ (E. M.) 4.00 Moving pictures exhibited at studios of trip through Colorado river 3.00 Tips, per day, about $1.25 Sundries, etc. 1.80

BY TRAIN, GRAND CANYON TO LOS ANGELES

Drawing room, Pullman $14.00 Car on freight. Lower berth, E. M. 4.00 3 breakfasts 2.60 Tip .30 3 lunches 3.15 Tip .35

_Los Angeles._ Alexandria Hotel. _Los Angeles._ Smith Bros.’ Garage (highest class garage).

1 hallboy (most luggage in car) .25 Result of desert: Dinner (very simple; for 1 front spring $11.00 three) 7.80 Tire and tube vulcanized 2.50 Theater 6.00 Exhaust pipe brazed 6.10 1 room and bath, _inside_ Exhaust pipe welded and and _dark_ 7.00 repaired; install new 1 _very_ small outside gaskets and assemble; room and bath, but dismantle muffler, perfectly good room 4.50 repair and assemble; Breakfasts and tips and paint muffler 21.50 luggage down 2.70 2 gaskets .90 Hiring a motor to move to Wash and polish 2.50 _Pasadena_ (while ours 21 gals. gas. (8c.!!) 1.68 being repaired) 10.00 1 gal. oil 1.00 Stopped with friends, but To charge battery .50 beautiful hotels in _Pasadena_.

RESUMED MOTORING. SHORT RUN LATE IN AFTERNOON, PASADENA TO RIVERSIDE

_Riverside._ Mission Inn. (The _most_ enchanting hotel!)

3 rooms, baths, and food $18.00 Tips and sundries 3.60

TWENTY-THIRD DAY’S RUN, RIVERSIDE TO SAN DIEGO

(MAP NO. 23)

_San Diego._ U. S. Grant Hotel. White Star Motor Co.

Dinner $3.00 Storage, 3 days $1.50 Tip .35 20 gals. gas 3.20 (Average day.) 1 gal. oil .80 Hallboys, luggage up and Wash car 1.50 down 1.75 Chambermaid .75 3 rooms and baths 14.00 3 entrances exposition (night) 1.50 Electric chair 2.00 Breakfast (3) 2.95 Exposition, 3 entrances (morning) 1.50 Electric chair (_whole day and held all 3 of us_) 4.00 Lunch at Exposition restaurant (3) 1.50 Tip .30 Indian Village .75 Panama Canal (3) .75 Various side-shows, etc. 6.30

TWENTY-FOURTH DAY’S RUN, SAN DIEGO TO SANTA BARBARA

(MAPS NOS. 23 AND 24)

Lunched in car on road.

_Santa Barbara._ Hotel Potter. _Santa Barbara._ El Camino Real Motor Co.

3 rooms and baths, a day, 25 gals. gas $2.50 including meals (none of Storage, 3 days 1.50 which we took; lunched and Oil (1 gal.) .80 dined out every day) $21.00 Bringing coffee to room and tip .45 Lunch to take with us the day we left 1.50 Ice-cream at druggist’s in thermos jar .30 Sundries and telegrams 3.10

TWENTY-FIFTH DAY’S RUN, PASO ROBLES TO MONTEREY

(MAP NO. 26)

_Paso Robles, Cal._ Paso _Paso Robles._ Pioneer Garage. Robles Springs Hotel.

Rooms with baths and two meals; 15 gals. gas $3.30 no luncheon charged for $12.75 Storage .50 Lunched at the R’s on our way. Much farther _out_ of our way than we thought, and had supper at _Salinas_; had cocoa, toast and omelette, plenty of it and very good for 75c. for three.

TWENTY-SIXTH DAY’S RUN, MONTEREY TO SAN FRANCISCO

_Monterey._ Hotel Del Monte. _Monterey._ Hotel Del Monte Garage.

Rooms (perfectly _vast_) and 14 gals. gas $3.08 baths, American plan $18.00 Storage .50 Tips and breakfast tray 2.50 Oil .90 Lunch to take with us 1.60 Sundries 2.00