The Nome daily nugget., 1936-02-07


 \A/ Smiths are going to spend w their vacation in Europe this
 summer! Well Be right in the swing of things, won't they!
 As a matter of fact, the Smiths won't. For these last two or three years the swing of things has been definitely away from setting Europe as goal for vacation travel. Steam ship lines and travel bureaus report steady decline in tourist bookings for the last few summers.
 There are several reasons for this. One of them is that the average pock- etbook Is decidedly simmer than it was few years back. The others don't count-except for one. That Is the fact that Americans are beginning, 1t seems, to discover that the good old U. S. A. has appeal, scenery and tray el interest in an abundance that the vacationer can find In no other land on earth.
 There was a popular song few years back that got the idea over as well as anything could: "You'n find your castles in Spain through your window pane, back in your own back yard .. -
 That's almost literally true. Just suppose now that you are sitting there dreaming about far-off Spain, famed for its sunny skies, brilliant after moons, gay, starlit evenings and white towers glistening under merry red roofs.
 It's not so far off as you might i'm agine. Like metropolis of Old Spain itself Is the southern California city where millions will probably visit on their vacations this summer. It Is San Diego. home of America's 1885 ex- position. Here, on the bay discovered by Cabrilo in 1542 is a setting that today resembles the explorers native land; here are the azure skies. the white buildings and the red roofs. It is Spain of the renaissance, yet the travel comforts are those of modern United States.
 Much of southern California Is like this. The bountful country. spotted profusely with orange groves and sloping vineyards, guarded by snOw- capped mountain peaks is sprinkled with old Spanish missions. lovely in architecture and rich in tradition, often built 300 years or more ago. The climate comedies nothing to the Mediterranean summer. Yet eleven days or more of two-weeks' vacation may be spent in this happy land. no matter where you live in America.
 Offers Many Attractions.
 California, like any other vacation spot of the United States, offers the visitor attractions that are distinctly American, in addition to the glamour and thrill of European atmosphere. There is Hollywood, with its endless wonders of the most fascinating of all industries, and the eyer-present pos sibility that you may run into Clark Gable or Joan Crawford face to face There is San Francisco with it's world. famed Golden Gate; there are nation al parks unsurpassed in beauty and grandeur the world over, and count. less points of interest interspersed.
 Visiting California, you may pass through other glories of the Wcst-Ari zona, Colorado, New Mexico. Where in Spain will you find Painted Desert, Garden of the Gods, YOse mite falls?
 Or let's say it was England you were thinking about. The charm Of the English countryside you will find in many parts of the New England states. On Vermont hillside you may stop for lunch or fer day oi two of rest and recreation in a quaint old English inn. In Boston, Maine