“September 21st, 1911. We wakened early this morning to pack for we were to breakfast at eight. The cottage had come to seem very homelike and our stay such a perfect one. We left with reluctance. But we were packed and ready before the auto came for us and after one more good Brookside meal we said goodbye to Maple Cottage and to Mrs. Kirkpatrick and Miss Myer who came out to see us off and motored to Oakland. Our last view of Brookside was….The drive over was more enjoyable than the first trip in the mule wagon but not so unique. Alfred talked to the chauffeur about all the unheard of kinds of cars and how they were built while I enjoyed the view. We reached Oakland an hour before train time and shopped for a part of that time in its queer stores. Our train was a local that stopped at all the little mountain cottages. Deer Park and Mountain Lake Park were the two most interesting ones but we could see little of either. At Cumberland we changed for the Chicago express to Washington. Our train as usual was about an hour late so we went to the Queen City Hotel for dinner. The trip on from Cumberland was very wild. I had never been over that road in day light and A. not for several years. Our train was late too in Washington but we took a taxi cab for the wharf and were in plenty of time for the Norfolk boat. It began raining very soon so we had no view at all as our boat left at 6 P.M. We had a very nice stateroom with a bath adjoining and my first night on the water looked very attractive.”
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