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we gave up and paid the 90 shillings and were on the way, but I became "wan tuff cookie" to my friend from then on.

We later in the day took off for Salzburg where we arrived late in the afternoon and headed for the castle. It is on the top of a steep hill right in the heart of the city and looks down over it all. It is reached by a cable railway. We had a good look at the city and then had to descend and do something about finding a place to stay that night. It had to be near the station because we had found that my friend had to catch a 6:15 AM train to Munich for connections to Frankfurt and N.Y., as he had an appoint- ment there Monday morning. We found a little guest house and turned in. About 5 AM we were up and drove to the station to catch the train. After he had gone I returned to the hotel, had breakfast, paid the bill and packed the car. I had at this time, a typical feminine reaction-while I'd had a man handle things the last several days and one who could speak much better German than I could, now I was going to be just a single woman alone in a strange country with 5 days of driving and living by myself in front of me. I had a tightening in my chest and the usual fear symptoms. However as soon as I got behind the wheel it was as tho Charles had taken over and I had no more fear, I knew I could handle whatever situations might arise. This duality of feeling was quite a sur- prise to me but fitted in quite well with my dual nature – having the qual- ities of both a man and a woman - I was also experiencing the emotional reactions of both.

Anyway I took off for Berchtesgarten. Went thru a salt mine way back inside the mountain-the salt is disseminated throughout the rock and is mined by dissolving it in water under pressure and then letting the brine run out again and down to the valley to evaporate. Next I drove my car up to the parking lot for Adolf Hitler's eyrie, the Eagles Nest, took a bus up to the top which is still about 500 feet below the house and hiked the rest of the way up to it. It's not much of a house having been converted into a restaurant but man what a view out and down. It is really on top of the peak.

I drove thru the hills and valleys of Austria to Zell am Zee where there is a glider field. It was cold, rainy and late in the afternoon when I arrived so I stayed overnight nearby and the next morning went to the field to see about a flight. They had a motor powered glider there which was some- what cheaper to fly than having to rent both the glider and the tow plane, so I took 2 flights in it. It was nice that I had had about 10 hours in a Cessna 150 back in Calif. so I was able to take it off O.K. After we got up to about 4000 ft. the instructor told me to push a button which turned off the

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