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On through Oppenau and Petersthal my way leads this latter a place of growing importance as a summer resort, several commodious hotels with swimming-baths, mineral waters, etc., being already prepared to receive the anticipated influx of health and pleasure-seeking guests this coming summer and then up, up, up among the dark pines leading over the Black Forest Mountains.
We were satisfied that we could walk to Oppenau in one day, now that we were in practice; so we set out the next morning after breakfast determined to do it. It was all the way downhill, and we had the loveliest summer weather for it.
So we set the pedometer and then stretched away on an easy, regular stride, down through the cloven forest, drawing in the fragrant breath of the morning in deep refreshing draughts, and wishing we might never have anything to do forever but walk to Oppenau and keep on doing it and then doing it over again.
We accomplished our undertaking. At half past eight in the evening we stepped into Oppenau, just eleven hours and a half out of Allerheiligen one hundred and forty-six miles. This is the distance by pedometer; the guide-book and the Imperial Ordinance maps make it only ten and a quarter a surprising blunder, for these two authorities are usually singularly accurate in the matter of distances.
All the circumstances were perfect and the anticipations, too, for we should soon be enjoying, for the first time, that wonderful spectacle, an Alpine sunrise the object of our journey. I say "apparently," because the guide-book had already fooled us once about the distance from Allerheiligen to Oppenau and for aught I knew it might be getting ready to fool us again.
All the circumstances were perfect and the anticipations, too, for we should soon be enjoying, for the first time, that wonderful spectacle, an Alpine sunrise the object of our journey. I say "apparently," because the guide-book had already fooled us once about the distance from Allerheiligen to Oppenau and for aught I knew it might be getting ready to fool us again.
I had previously informed him of his mistake about the distance from Allerheiligen to Oppenau, and had also informed the Ordnance Depart of the German government of the same error in the imperial maps.
So we set the pedometer and then stretched away on an easy, regular stride, down through the cloven forest, drawing in the fragrant breath of the morning in deep refreshing draughts, and wishing we might never have anything to do forever but walk to Oppenau and keep on doing it and then doing it over again.
We accomplished our undertaking. At half past eight in the evening we stepped into Oppenau, just eleven hours and a half out of Allerheiligen one hundred and forty-six miles. This is the distance by pedometer; the guide-book and the Imperial Ordinance maps make it only ten and a quarter a surprising blunder, for these two authorities are usually singularly accurate in the matter of distances.
I had previously informed him of his mistake about the distance from Allerheiligen to Oppenau, and had also informed the Ordnance Depart of the German government of the same error in the imperial maps.
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