Sunday, February 26, 1956
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P l a y..A different slant
on how to travel
By DAVID KESSEL quently ignore the relatively mild prices of food and gasoline began food, together with the problem counts of the perils of a recent
ONE cold winter day, for reas- Boston winter. to discourage these unfortunates. of maintaining adequate lubrica- Boston ice storm, which had
ons which will be made clear, The possibility of sailing up tion of the jeep engine decided the dropped temperatures to a mere
a small group of reckless wander- the Atlantic coast to Labrador was BUT I urged them on; the issue, two below zero while we were
ers, of which I was the unwilling discounted when it was discovered thought of reaching Labrador, After only a five mile penetra- away.
leader, decided to travel to Labra- that most Newfoundland rivers 2500 miles from the Arctic circle, tion of Newfoundland, we returned The next winter we drove down
dor, from Boston. were frozen solid. with its frozen plains and moun- to Boston via Quebec and Port- the South American coast to the
Labrador is a rather large pen- Automobile transportation was twins, hardy Eskimos and frigid land, Maine, Straits of Magellan in a borrowed
Insula of land in the northeast sec- the obvious second choice. This women, huge birds and primitive MG and were stopped from an ill-
tion of this continent, divided be- was planned carefully with ade- roads had become an obsession. OUR friends there thawed us by advised sprint across Drake pas-
tween Quebec and Newfoundland; quate provisions made for the seas- The frozen Romaine river was their warm fires and listened sage to the Palmer Peninsula and
a mountainous region containing onably low temperatures likely to crossed two days out of Quebec.to endless descriptions of cold and Little America only by diligent ef-
rivers, Indians, Eskimos, and birds. be encountered. Here, we lost our automobile and snow and ice and sleet. And we forts of the Argentine Secret Ser-
Roads and railways are not eas- some of our supplies when a por- were spared their uninteresting ac- vice. But that is another story.
i found; transportation is there- set out first for the city of tion of the ice gave way. For- - --------
fore a problem undertaken only by Quebec, in the province of tunately, a kindly Indian gas sta-
the bold and adventurous. Quebec. This is the most north- tion owner rented us his jeep with
But it must be admitted that ern point at which the St. Law- 4-wheel drive and we continued.
none of these considerations moved rence river is conveniently crossed. The prevailing temperatures be- ON JUNE 25, 1956
us to explore Labrador. At the The 350 mile journey from Bos- gan to drop the next day. At one the fabulous STOP Study Tour
time, January 1950, New England ton was made in some 12 hours on time our mercury thermome ter for girls departs to
was immersed in a severe cold wretched roads. Portland, Maine, read off-scale, below -30.
wave. Temperatures of five be- the half-way point, was completely Nevertheless, we drove up the
low zero were not uncommon. Bos- snowed in. Waterville, Maine, had frozen Romaine River and, at
tonians grumbled audibly along disappeared under massive snow nightfall, reached the Newfound- (University of Hawaii Summer Session)
the waterfront and in the shops drifts., land border. At the sight of the 47 DA S * $ 5 PLUS
about this somewhat unfortunate Canadian officials greeted us glorious frozen wastes, we decided 4 UAI - 4 It
climate. - warmly, but when informed of our to push on: at least to the Hamil- (/ DELUXE BEACH APARTMENTS AT THE
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WIZ were all young and impetu- and gasps only with difficulty. NEW HAWAIIANA HOTEL
ous, ahd it seemed that we After a quick check on road AT this time, I secretly planned
Daoidonessel spet fourrthehtine sPRIreachedOSeve Island'RIL iIR
could combine a natural desire conditions, we pushed along, fol- to convice the others that
for exploration with an irrational lowing Route 15 to Baie St. Paul, we must continue to the northern : ~ WONDERFUL SPECIAL EVENTS & PARTIES
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David Kessel spent four the iew ece ee sadln oteNrhMgei oeo eol e: S~
pleasant undergraduate years a small village in Quebec com- on Prince of Wales Island. AfterforndetaslssseenSTOP
in the Boston area at the Mas- posed mostly of ice and 'now', the that-perhas a 2000 mile plunge
sachusetts Institute of Tech- idea of reaching the Newfound- the Pole itself.
nology, during which period the land border began to appeal to my However cooler heads prevailed; TRAVEL JERVI E _
above incident may very well companions with somewhat less and after a low that night of -40',
have happened, intensity than before. The se- we regietfully turned toward home. 12-14 Nickels Arcade NO 3-8597 TOURS
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