The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-11
TIPS FOR TOURISTS
WHO WOULD ENJOY
MOTORING SEASON
Experienced Traveller Tells
Washington How to Get
Best of Trips.

During the next three months hun
oreds of Washington motorists vii
make tours ranging from one day t
one month. For their information som
valuable hints have been prepared b,
an experienced motorist who has toured
all over the United States. They ar,
worthy Of close study by every maj
who contemplates a tour in his ma
chine.
Don't start out simply to reach a goal
Remember that many a side-road is faI
prettier than the much-traveled pike
Be willing to stop here and there, al
such a one-and ask the people living
near about 1t. You may not reach the
goal as quickly, but you will come back
having seen far more that's really worth
the seeing.
When near a farmhouse, slow down
a bit and look about you. After a trip
is made and done, 1t is the novel and
interesting things worth telling about
that are the pleasure for you. At rat
of a mile in two minutes you will not
see the birdhouses, made of swinging
gourds, or how the sage blooms, or how
that wellhouse is made from an old
wine cask.
Somewhere in the car keep a record
of its trips. 1t will be interesting to
settle discussions, and it saves time
jotting in now and then, on duller Sec
tons, rather than awaiting evening,
when you are tired, disgruntled, and
Down in the Decent store they have
q little pocket filter-just a piece of
tubing into a glass bowl full of what
looks like sand, and another tube out
at the bottom, and 1t fits in your pocket.
When you drink at this, that and the
other limpid brook or falls, it will not
spoil the taste to run it through the
filter.
Keep a supply of films some place
IN the car. often the prettiest pictures
present themselves after you have tax
en- the last on the roll you started out
with.
II is not a bad idea, If you have the
room, to offer some intelligent wayfar
knows the countryside and the facts
he will tell you more than repay the
slight extra haul you must make.
Do not go on tear that is just
inside the speed limit, through the viii
lagos. Instead, stop somewhere, If it's
only in front of the group of men dis
cussirg crops, al the corner, and ask:
Anything interesting round here"
probably. that hasn't its story-whether
It's a fve-legged calf. a twin tree, or
the largest patch work quilt in the
State. It is much more interesting and
sounds better to come home and tell
Of these, than simply to rattle off, like
a depot porter: I'VE went through Abb
beville at 10. Batesville at 1905, Cot
tontown at 1907. and so on.
well-stocked lunch basket Is never
amiss, but do not let II keep you from
sampling a tavern dinner in every
place YOU strike at meal time. If so,
you will miss the best country chick
en-, best vegetables and so forth, you
ever tasted.
When coming into strange city, and
about 10 do sightseeing, follow the plan
magazine travellers use. Strike for the
end of town, take the first street east
and west. and go its length. Then up
one square and down the next, and so
on. Half the interesting things Of every
large city are not listed in the guide
books. and you can resort to the others
in good time.