it so fast that when I was in Sydney about 4 days later she sent me a copy of her introductory first issue. A real go getter. Again it was not only a pleasure but of real value to contact some of our people face to face and to come to understand some of the problems faced locally.

After three days in Melbourne it was off to Sydney by way of Canberra where we stopped over for about a four hour visit. Canberra, the capitol of Australia was built for that purpose and although the city is 50 years old it was laid out by a plan from scratch and the plan has been adhered to so that it avoids all the problems which develop in cities that just grow like most US cities have. It is attractive, efficient, clean and scenic which is saying a lot. At Sydney airport I was walking toward the bus when suddenly I'm paged over the P.A. system. Answering the page I find that our cover girl, Rosemary, (as herself) and Pauline (as her brother) were there to meet me, much to my surprise. So I drove into the hotel with them and abandoned the tour bus. I had dinner with Rosemary that evening and then went over to their motel room where Pauline emerged from her cocoon and we had a nice visit. Next day I was shown around the city.

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About this time my room mate was overcome with curiosity as to how come I knew people in Auckland, Christchurch, Melbourne and Sydney and all men. I don't know whether she thought I was some sort of international call girl or what but I had to explain that they were people that I had met in California when they came through or that they were friends of friends, etc. This only whetted her curiosity and interest. But it was certainly nice for me to have friends in four cities, to be able to meet and talk with them and to see the city with them and outside of the d--- tour bus. They all went to some trouble to look after me and I certainly appreciate the efforts of all of them. I hope I contributed a few ideas like the newsletter etc. which will bear fruit for them in the future.

Next day we had a very long flight diagonally across the whole Australian continent to Bali. I was very put out that I was unable to get a window seat on this flight because the geology of the terrain was very interesting. Having some of the old bags on the tour who did get window seats use them to sleep in didn't help my feelings at all. Bali was a very interesting place. We took several excursions away from the hotel into the hinterland and the one thing that was most impressive were the little kids that stood in each gateway along the roads and shouted "hello," waved and gave us big smiles. I nearly broke my arm waving to them from the bus a very friendly nation of people. Their hydro-engineering is also a marvel. Rice paddies everywhere and the water from the distant mountains is led from paddy

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