Motoring aboard . les aw^ay. When we arrived at the station in the city wewere met by what appeared to be an immensecrowd, people who had heard, we presume, thatsome fool American had hired a special train tobring him and his family and motor to the citythat he might not miss the joys and delights ofan Oban Sunday. We felt very much as if wewere the Lord Mayors and Mayoresses of sometown being received with the freedom of thecity. To the frugal Scotch such reckless ex-travagance as a special train to save a few hourswas a folly which would be indulged in only byAmericans. We still feel that in
Motoring aboard . les aw^ay. When we arrived at the station in the city wewere met by what appeared to be an immensecrowd, people who had heard, we presume, thatsome fool American had hired a special train tobring him and his family and motor to the citythat he might not miss the joys and delights ofan Oban Sunday. We felt very much as if wewere the Lord Mayors and Mayoresses of sometown being received with the freedom of thecity. To the frugal Scotch such reckless ex-travagance as a special train to save a few hourswas a folly which would be indulged in only byAmericans. We still feel that in a countrywhere a shilling is spent as we in iVmerica spenda dollar, our special will long be referred to asan evidence of the recklessness with whichAmericans throw their money away. Oban is termed by Baedeker, *The CharingCross of the Highlands,* because it is the centerof so much traffic by rail and steamer. It lacksany individual interest other than that whichattaches to many places having attractive views 216. On the trip from Inverness the road keepsclose to the Caledonian Canal, which is formedby connecting a string of beautiful lakes. Cmbarfeing for Srelanb of sea and mountain. It is the keystone of thearch for tourists to the west of Scotland, how-ever, and is thronged all summer, as it is thepoint from which many trips by land and seaare started. The Alexandra Hotel, at which we stopped,is thoroughly high class in its charges. It isstill a question for discussion among our partywhether the springless beds we tried to sleep inwere made of uneven wooden blocks set onend, or pine tree cones. In either event theywere the worst we found on our tour. Our Obanexperience confirmed us in the belief that theso-called Station hotels, operated and ownedby the railway companies, are the best at whichto stop in most if not all Scotch cities of im-portance. The trip from Oban to Ardlui, which is sit-uated at the north end of Loch Lomond, we madeon Sunday and it is one of the days we
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