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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1969-05-15, Page 24The Signal -Star, May 19, 1969 — Car Care Supplernent• -Page 6B Travel -Wise Motorist. Continued from Page 4 ,. way's path or alongside it. There are 49 bridges totalling nearly 18 miles. .. * * • GREAT LAKES STATES, ONTARIO'S -LAKE SUPERIOR DRIVE The essential appeal of tills dr};ve is it makes wil- derness "easily . accessible. It meanders through muskeg, rifles through rock, - snakes through' swamps,' curves through rock nyons, roars through rock gorges, is some- times smooth as .a billiard table, sometimes bumpier than a chuckhole -filled street in spring. From it one.sees magnificent sweeps of Lake Superior, vast er road- in America can in the same distance unfold ... such a grand array of beautiful for- .ests, dashing torrents, wonder- ful gorges and valleys, tower- ing cirques, and a vista. fibold, needle -peaked mountains and serrated escarpments...." It's probably the only road in the world so engineered that one can' climb .4,000 feet with nu- merous switchbacks ,in less than 25 miles, cross the Von- tinental Divide, descend 4,000 feet in 25 miles; and never have to change driving ranges once. Even those who fear mountain driving should have no trouble here. * * vistas of° mountain and• valley, NO TH CAROLINA'S OUT - glimpses of gem -like lakes hitt = ER'$ NKS HIGHWAY --,--Many .den in the trees, many of call. ''this drive. on State 12 which have never been fished, "he- "roati that beat the- sand -and which are visited by moose dunes," for it makes accessible and bears' regularly.•a remote, 150 -mile stretch of This is a drive of such varie- pencil -thin sand islands con- ty that everyone will. bring �, stantly moved about by the home a different impr'ession� wind from the Atlantic Ocean * * on the east: To the west is HAWAII'S CIRCLE OF Pamlico sound, which sepa- OAHU ISLAND DRIVE rates the islands from the mainland by eight to 30 miles Toughest job I had was decid of water. From its inland ing which to describe of many end at Elizabeth City it goes drives the Hawaiian Islands through towns with salty offer. For they are all lovely, names,,like Nags Dead, Hatter - and --most feature essentially as, Ocracoke. the same things; breathtaking There are 70 miles of clean, vistas of the ocean in its many white, uncrowded sand -beach colors, accessibility to beaches for surf and boat fishing, bath - which are little -used, roads in and just beach'combin in edged with everything from g g stately cocoanut palm trees to this National Seashore park. flowers ranging in color from e and one all ferry ere er des oftwo e45 minutes white to red seemingly grow- . each. One can explore quaint ing wild, roads which cut fishing villages, hear Bankers through lush green sugar cane converse in Elizabethan-flav- flelds+ higher than ones car,' ored English, cast for a variety or which edge sugar pineapple of ocean fish at Gamefish fields rich and red. Volcano Junction, where massive warm country with black,rock along- and cold ocean currents col - shore, rock crumbling to red lide, see the shipwreck -stud - and turning into rich earth . ded beach along the "Grave- yard of the Atlantic" and five America's lighthouses, in- ing its tallest. Park is my personal favorite. ORM ,CAROLINA -TEN- NESSEE -VIRGINIA'S BLUE I have, driven it both ways RIDGE PARKWAY — Some of eight times and always see the most graceful mountain something new. The late Ste- scenery in the world is un- phen T. Mather, first director folded from a car window on of the National Park Service, this motoring thrill ride which- wrote hich- wrote of it: often takes one through or "It is doubtful if in any oth above the clouds, When com- inland. MONTANA'S GOING -T THE -SUN HIGHWAY= Of all the roads I've ever driven, this one 'bisecting Glacier National pleted, it will • -be a 470 -Mile scenic scenic drive connecting Shen- andoah National Park in Vir- ginia' and Great Smoky Moun- tains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee. Str . "and U.S. highways connect the. few portions not `finished. . The road twists and turns likea garter ';rake in follow- ing the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains at elevations from 12,000 to 6,050 feet. It_ is un- doubtedly driven,. at least in part, by more persons -than any, of the other drives listed here. WASHINGTON STATE'S OLYMPIC PENINSULA DRIVE — 'Choosing one among the many great drives in this area`` s not easy. But the one which circles Olympic National Park offers possibly more variety than the others. The park's 888,000 acres are sprawled over the extreme northwestern point on the Continental United States, bordered by Canada to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Much of this drive follows the. ocean', and to get to know much about the park one must • detour inland in a number of places. .It is a, land of contrasts, with the northeast section of the park having one of • the west coast's driest climates. Yet a scant 50 roles west over the Olympic peaks upwards of • 15d inches of rain falls annu- ally, making this the greatest rain forest area in the U.S. Only a few miles inland from the coastal road are walls of timber and fern with moss hanging' from trees. H W MUCH a) IS YOUR DRIVING COSTING YOU • was Up Where You • You Can.. BEAT The HIGH COST OF TRANSPORTATION LKSWAGEM_ IS THE ANSWER * FIRST COST LESS * LOWER FINANCING COSTS * NO MODEL G ANGES k 1! Get Total ... Car Care LOWER DEPRECIATION NO NEED TO TRADE SO OFTEN * USES LESS GAS AND OIL * LOWER OPERATING .COSTS • Drive in here where you get quality gas, plus fast- complete service riar •matfer vv -hat your auto need! You'll like the. difference. 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