Show r Help t HelpY Yourself To 3 A W i Ya h A R SLICE AT LIFE LIFE f t lI B By Y C Catherine a th S S. H Hart ar t Ill Ill I'll have to admit that there sr are are f some unpleasant things about f summer vacations vacations like like never meeting anyone else except other tourists who tourists who probably find us just as obnoxious as we find them Or like finding out that Utah not only has more greasy spoon restaurants but also more greasy knife and and fork restaurants than any other state Of course I dont don't want to pick on on this our beloved state tate I mean at least there is a II variety of food in most Utah towns hamburgers with onions at the Dairy Queens Queen's hamburgers I with tomatoes at the Dairy Kings King's and just plain hamburgers gers at the 1 I s I Dairy Princes One of of- the worst things about I vacations is staying in motels which dont don't have Gideon Bibles you can filch Ive I've collected so many of these free Bibles that now when any anyone one questions or ever doubts my word I have no trouble producing a stack of Bibles to swear on oh on Thrilling Thrills And then there are motels which are so distressingly clean that yo you you cant can't even even play out roach the cockroach a a remarkable remarkable remark remark- able game which adds and hidden hidden excitement to dull motel- motel room room nights You and partner stand at opposite ends of the room and stalk th the adversary either adversary either moths centipedes or cockro cockroaches ches which ever species Is more numer numer numer- numer I ous Whoever wins gets to to to tobe be next mornings morning's slugabed whoever whoever whoever who who- ever loses loies gets t to sh slugabed gabed-bui But these disadvantages aside there is that definite thrill to vacations vacations va va- of f getting out on the open road of seeing and appreciating Nature in all her majesty and all all' her distinct overpowering smells the rural farm decay smell the rotting alfalfa smell the stinky j i sassafras smell the dirty sheep's wool smell A true connoisseur of of I I l j I the open road can by deftly upturning up turning his nose and gingerly I j I delicately sniffing the air distinguish distinguish distin distin- I between old fertilizer and older One drawback to pleasant vacations vacations va va- c however is service sta tion where restrooms where the tissue paper and the wastebasket seem seem l I Always to mutually exclude each I other other and and which like Lady MacBeth's Mac Mac- Beths Beth's hand all the perfumes of Arabia could not sweeten I All of this changes though when you finally reach your deal deal- nation and begin to absorb the local color and atmosphere Last I week for example when I was in I Santa Fe new Mexico I admired the authentic hand-crafted hand Native Na No I tive Indian pottery But I found out later that teams of potters have been there for years teaching the Indians how to do I It Watch Closely I Also next time you see any i authentic Indian dances look I closely I spent an evening in inT I T Taos os New Mexico watching the Indians do their war dances snake dances and hoop dances But I noticed that the dances all looked strang strangely ly strangely strange strange- ly a familiar familiar-a a sort of stepped up I Virginia Reel taught to them no doubt by American square dance experts As a matter of fact in a lot of I places in Southern Utah you cant can't really tell teIl the Indians from the tourists It used to be the drunken Indian and ancl the well dressed tour tour- I list now its it's the other way around i where the Indians are the oil tycoons tycoons ty ty- I coons and the uranium barons But dont don't let any any of this deter dete r I you from travelling g. g After all our President and his his' special council USA Travel of American citizens citizens citi citi- zens within have said to See America First figuring no doubt that we can always leave without qualms later |