Evening star., 1946-01-13
The Travellers Notebook
scribbIings About Mexieo's side-Rood Buses,
Fishing OFT Hotteros and the Sand
SoiIbouts of Georqio's Sea Island
BY JACQUES FUTRELLE,

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SoiIboots of Georgia
BY JACQUES FUTRELLE,
Travel Editor.
Tucson, in the desert and noun
| tain winter resort area of Arizona,
quotes Weather Bureau statistics to
show it averages 1886 sunshiny days
a year.
Interesting and amusing to YAM
kee visitors, If they understand
Spanish, is the Mexican practice
of naming the "mixtos" buses which
carry motley cargoes of country peo-
pie, vegetables, flowers and chickens
on the side roads. Vehicles nearly
always bear printed names, after
bottle of beer or mineral water.
has been broken over a front fender
in a christening ceremony, and the
names are such as these: "Good-by,
My Love-" I'm a Gypsy" "One Side,
Goats!," Courage, My Heart" APP
proach of a bus sends the usual
American party diving for an Eng
llSll-Opdilloll olStlOiinAy.
The Lakeview IN. c. Hotel on
Highway No. between Raleigh and
Southern Pines, is to remain open
the year round under new policy
of catering to North-South highway
travel. Extensive renovation of the
hostelry has been completed.
Miami Beach. with 331 hotels,
claims one-fourth of Floridas total
hotel space.
Suspended by the war, the Fort
Myers (Fla) Pageant of Lights will
be revived in a weeks celebration
February 4-10. The festival, high
lighted by dance bands, sports
events, fireworks, water contests
and baby parade, stems from
Thomas A. Edison's discovery in
1885 of Fort Myers, where he built
home and recovered his health.
The fete honors his birthday an
niversary.
The Toronto Ski Club, claiming
the worlds largest membership,
f1oodlights it's runs this winter, illu-
minating miles of hills and fair
ways to accommodate 1000 persons
each evening. The club grounds are
20 miles north of Toronto.
Air travel statisticians disclose
that the average passenger flies
more than double the distance per
trip he flew in 1880. In that year, he
went 224 miles; in 1943, the distance
was 476 miles.
The Cape Hatteras area, drawin,
each year vacationists who like wild
and remote surroundings, will have
at least two sports s-fishing men to
guide visitors into the best waters
in 1916. The war, according to local
gossip, furnished a number of new
wrecks on the sea bottom off the
cape, sheftering hosts of small fry
that draw larger game fish.
The City of Miami plans to de-
velop into superb yacht basin the
famous Dinner Key base, which has
been purchased from Pan American
AirWays
For skiing in Maine. choices range
in these locations: Bridgton, Frey
bury, Harrison. Rumford, Andover,
Camden, Poland Springs, Rangeley.
Sanford, Skowhegan, Presque Island
and Caribou. New facilities have
been installed at some of the States
snow spots.
Resort AirlineS, based on Knoll
wood Airport outside Pinehurst and
Southern Pines, NJ c., report the ini-
tlal three of its two-motored pas
senger plane feet are operating ito
any part of the country" Incident
ally, so-called standard" rates for
chartered air service for round trips
are about 80 cents a mile, plus Fed
eral tax The lines present planes
carry four passengers.
If you drive along a highway in
Mexico and see an octagonal sign
with the word ALTO" don't think
it means hill" or 'go up; it's cau-
ton to stop. If sign says "DES-
PACIO." don't step on the gas: it
means to slow down. The sharply
bent arrow gives tip on a sign
lettered "CODO"; it forewarns a
sharp turn. The Mexican Tourist
Association reports the republic has
about 5,l10 miles of tourist-recom-
/ nended roads.
Thrilling speeds are attained on
the sand sailboats at Sea Island
Ga. Built like ice boats, but equipped
with wheels, the land craft course up
and down the hard-packed 4-mile
| beach.
In the peak travel year of 1929
Americans spent s681 100000 for
foreign travel. Nearly 1903 900, 900
was left in Europe
The Miami area dog tracing sched-
ule: West Flagler Kennel Club, con-
tinues through February 20; Brow
ard Kennel Club, continues through
April S; Miami Beach Kennel Club
continues through April Ii; Bis
cayne Kennel Club, February 2e
through May 81.
The annual st. Petersburg Havana
yacht race is scheduled to start from
Recreation Pier at noon, March 80.
Color schemes of 1916 automobile
license plates in most States have
been decided for some time. Pos
sibly the motorists may wish to re-
member the ones seen more fire.
quently in this section of the At