Moody Describes Adventures
On Open Road Of U.S. With
Family And  "Wanderer IIP
Local  Dealer Tells  Graphic  Story  Of  Covering
12,000 Miles uGypsying Through America" In
f    "Land-Yacht" ;MeetsMany01dShanghai Friends
Returning to Shanghai on the
Empress of Japan Wednesday with
his family, Mark L. Moody, head of
the firm bearing: his name, brought
an interesting collection of photographs and travelog moving pictures
made by himself, and' an unusual
story of more than 12,000 miles of
"gypsying through America" as he
calls it, in the course of which the
Moody family traveled from the
Pacific Coast to the Gulf .of Mexico,
up into Canada, to the Atlantic
Coast, back to the Pacific Coast and
finally sailed from Vancouver,
British Columbia, establishing what
is believed to be a new travel record for motorists in America.
The trip was made in a house-
trailer which Mr. Moody refers to
as a "land-yacht." His "cruiser''
was named "Wanderer III, Shanghai, China" and will be put on exhibition for several days at the
Moody Company's showrooms at
the corner of Szechuen Road and
Avenue Edward VII in about a
week, after it has been landed and
passed through Customs.
"It was a most enjoyable and
novel experience," stated Mr. Moody
in his comments on the trip which
consumed nearly three months time,
during which 30 States were crossed, three of them being crossed
twice, and the provinces of Ontario
and British Columbia being traversed in Canada.
Named  After  Houseboat
The "Wanderer III," in which Mr.
and Mrs.,: Moody and their three
children, William, Robert and
Martha-Mae made their 12,000 mile
" cruise" of America, is named after
the houseboats which Mr. Moody
has cruised the inland waters of
this part of China during rtrre last
J5 years. The "Wanderer III" is a
novel "cruiser" and has a much
Wider cruising range than its
namesakes, with the opening of
China's new roads in the Yangtse
Valley provinces.
"The comfort and compactness of
the appointments and conveniences
of the "Wanderer III" are a revelation ) to houseboat owners as
well as to motorists and the lay
public," said Mr. Moody in his
remarks preliminary to his description of the accommodations of
the strange "craft" which he
brought back to Shanghai with
him, and which is described in
detail elsewhere in this article.
With the housetrailer connected
to the rear of their Chrysler sedan
car the Moodys left Los Angeles,
California the afternoon of May 29..
to start their 12,000 mile gypsying
jaunt over a large part of the North
American continent. The first
night's stop was made at San
Bernardino, California, preparatory
to crossing the great Mojave Desert
through which wends a beautiful
highway, as is attested by Moody's
photos    and    movies.    Two    day's
travel, totaling 600 miles through
great sand wastes and cactus saw
the party across the desert and
headed for the. Grand Canyon
where they arrived a.day later to
spend two days viewing and photographing the World's greatest fissure.
Liked Grand Canyon
"I just couldn't possibly describe
Grand Canyon beyond saying it is
the one place in all of-.my travels
where I stood with my mouth open
in amazement for so long that I
nearly sunburned my tonsils," said
Mr. Moody. "Burton Holmes of international travelog fame places
the Grand Canyon of Arizona first
en the list of the nine most interesting places ,in the world and says:
'Why? Because I love beauty and
It is* the biggest beauMfuf thing in
the world. It is unique because the
earth can show nothing to equal it
in beauty, gorgeousness of color,
grandeur, impressive weirdness ' and
immensity.' I brought away my
best impressions of Grand Canyon
in a movie film in natural colors.,
which I took at sunset one afternoon."
The next point of interest, visited
was the Coolidge Dam in Southeastern Arizona from where the
"gypsies" proceeded in easy stages
to Galveston Texas to spend a week
swimming and fishing in the Gulf
of Mexico and visiting Mr. Moody's
mother, who was a Shanghai visitor
for eight months in 1923.;
Leaving the Gulf Coast \ the
"Wanderer III" cruised inland,
North to the Lake of the Ozarksin
the heart of the Ozark Mountains
in Central Missouri for a week's
camping," fishing, and photography.
They then "traveled to St. Louis to
visit Major and .Mrs., James H.
Doolittle who will be remembered
as recent Shanghai visitors when
the world-famous pilot treated
Shanghailanders to a series of aerial
acrobatic   programs.    , During    the
Mrs. Moody And Family
Here you see four-fifths quarter c
their famous trailer—"land yacht" if ;
and dale across the far-flung highwa
picture was taken in the Blue Ridge
what the Moodys saw on their recenl
Moody's sojourn in St. Louis Major
Doolittle took members of the family for an airplane ride over the
city and up the Mississippi River.
A moving picture was made of this
trip also.
Visits Lincoln's Birthplace
"From St.    Louis the  "cruise"  of I
the "Wanderer III" took the party
into  Kentucky    to  visit    Lincoln's
birthplace,    the    Mammoth    Cave, |
"My Old Kentucky Home" and Mrs.
Moody's ancestral home. Next, Ohio I
was crossed and Michigan invaded,
where the Reo -factory at Lansing
and the    Chrysler, Plymouth,    De-1
Soto and Packard factories at Detroit were visited, prior to crossing
into Canada at    Port Huron    and ]
driving across the province of Ontario  to  Niagara  Falls for  a stop I
to view the falls and take movies of j
it in natural colors.
While at the Chrysler factory in I
Detroit the Moody children were
presented with miniature airflow
Chrysler cars/ by Mr. E. C. Morse,
President of the Chrysler Export
Corporation/who visited Shanghai I
three years ago while on his round-1
the-world trip.
The   party's  itinerary  then  took
them through the    States of   New I
York, Vermont, and New Hampshire
and down into Massachusetts. Near
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