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OUR AUTO TRIP FINALLY ENDED AT TIA JUANA WHERE WE WERE ENTERTAINED BY CARRANZA AND HIS STAFF. HE WAS THEN GOVERNOR OF THE PROVIDENCE OF SONORA AND AFTERWARDS PRESIDENT OF MEXICO. WE ENJOYED THE MEXICAN DINNER BUT NOT THE BULL FIGHT.

I REMEMBER WE THEN DROVE BACK TI SAN DIEGO AND WERE BUSY PACKING AND MAKING PLANS TO RETURN LAST BY TRAUN WE WERE CALLED UPON BY A SYNDICATE REPORTER WHO WANTED TO WRITE A STORY FOR THE CASTERN NEWSPAPERS. THE REPORT HAD WHAT HE AND I THOUGHT A MARVELOUS IDEA. IN AS MUCH AS I HAD BEEN THE FIRST CALL TO DRIVE ACROSS THE CONTINENT WHY NOT BE THE FIRST, OR ONE OF THE FIRSTTO RIDE IN AN AIRPLANE? WOULD I DO IT? SURE. I WAS CRAZY ENOUGH TO DO ANYTHING.

PUBLICITY PLANES HAD ALL BEEN MADE BEFORE I WAS CONTACTED WHICH INCLUDED RETURNING JUST ACROSS THE BORDER EARLY ON SATURDAY MORNING TO MEET B.F. ROEHRIG WHO HAD TWO PLANES. I HAVE FORGOTTEN THE NAME OF THE SMALLER PLANE, BUT THE LARGER WAS ONE OF THOSE BIG OLD FARNHAMS AND IT WAS IN THE LATTER I WAS TO RIDE THE PASSENGER. 

NOW IN THOSE DAYS, AS OLD TIMERS WILL REMEMBER, WE DID OUR FLYING AT CARLY DAWN OR AT SUNSET BECAUSE AT THAT TIME THERE WAS PRACTICALLY NO WIND. WE AGREED TO COME BACK IN THE AFTERNOON AT SUNDOWN. MY NEWSPAPER FRIEND WAS VERY ANXIOUS TO HAVE MEMAKE THE FLIGHT THAT DAY, SATURDAY, SO THAT HIS FRONT PAGE FEATURE WOULD REACH THE GREAT EASTERN PAPERS FOR THE SUNDAY EDITION AND IT GAVE US VERY LITTLE LEEWAY. 

SO WE MERRILY TOOLED OUR WAY BACK ACROSS THE MEXICAN BORDER ABOUT FOUR O'CLOCK THAT SAME FTERNOON, ONLY TO FIND THAT ROEHRIG HAD TAKEN THE FARMHAM UP DURING THE DAY AND HAD COMPLETELY CRACKED