The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-21

nor as >expensfve-as the hotels in
 the bigger towns along the main
 lines of motor-car travel, he will
 probably benefit none the less, for
 the simpler fare will doubtless De
 better for him than the 'near-Frenc.> for at the bigger hotels.
 Fears of bad roads need not deter
 our vacation motortst from making
 his trip on such a plan, for unless
 he makes his trip in very wet wealth
 CT, he will have little or no trouble
 cars are we'll and stanchly built and will carry him over any kind of roads
 he encounters, always provided he
 takes things easily and does not set out to make or break records from
 town to town or city to city. Exces- sive speed, too often encouraged by stretches Of smooth, level, macadam-
 ized highways, has done too much mischief to the cause of automobif- ing for it to have any place in the plans of our vaca1onist. In many of these smaller towns he will pass through he will hear of interesting side trips he can make. particularly If he be in mo- hurry to get to some certain point. In this way he may have an opportunity of visiting pla- ces of historical interest that his hurrying brothers would never know anything about except from their histories. He will also be practical ly sure of seeing beautiful spots that would have been missed had his jour- hey not been leisurely one.
 AS he drives along these pleasant roodS at a reasonable rate of speed let him stop every once in a while to talk to farmers or pedestrians. If he comes upon friendly wayfarers trudg1ng along the road in the direc- tion his car is headed, he can often held the cause of good roads and au- tomobiling by carrying these pedes- trians along in his car for a part of their journey. While he enjoys his automobile vacation trip, let hirn be sure that he helps as much as possible to convince others that motor cars have sane uses, in spite of the fact that SO many motorists display so lit tie consideration for other users of the highways. A week or two weeks spent in this kind of a vacation mo- tor-car trip will give a man a better idea of the district in which he lives than could be obtained in any other way. He will come to know the pleasant places that have always been 50 near to him, but which he would probably have never heard of while he continued to use his car only for relatively fast drives over the improv- ed highways.
 HIS very Iack or dennfto plans will help make the trip a pleasant one for him, as he will be seeing unexpected scenes and people continually and the more frequently charms than repels. Most men brought up in cities or towns have at one time Or another gone 6n similar unplan- ned trips when they were boys. start- ing out for walking trips of a day or more without a definite destination. To motorists who have memories of such days a vacation trip without prear- ranged routes should prove most al- turing. If his vacation trip. is car- ried out along these lines, he Is much more likely to finish it without me- chanical troubles than if he were to start out and plan to cover certain number of miles each day. A car that would run for a year or two at moderate speeds without the slightest trouble might be badly damaged in a half days trip at high speed. High speed not only imposes very great shocks on the delicate me- chanism of a car, but especially on roads unfamiliar to the driver, broken springs often result from a car strik- Ing an unnoticed hole in the highway.