Chapter III: Preface: Fellow-Wanderer

The curtain that so long darkened many of the world's happy
places is lifted at last. Quaint villages, old cities,
rolling hills, and velvet valleys once more beckon to the
traveler.

The chapters that follow tell the story of a small family
who went gypsying through that golden age before the war
when the tree-lined highways of France, the cherry-blossom
roads of the Black Forest, and the high trails of
Switzerland offered welcome to the motor nomad.

The impressions set down, while the colors were fresh and
warm with life, are offered now to those who will give a
thought to that time and perhaps go happily wandering
through the new age whose dawn is here.

A. B. P.
_June, 1921._