CHAPTER VIII.
CATCHING UP ON THE KITE-SHAPED TRACK.
Not the kite-shaped track of new-made trotting records and pneumatic tires, but a track upon which you may pass a pleasant day riding after the iron horse.
The route extends easterly from Los Angeles to San Bernardino _via_ Pasadena.

Beyond San Bernardino is the "loop," which will take us twelve miles farther east to Mentone, and around an oval curve back to San Bernardino.

Thence we kite down to Riverside, then southwesterly to Orange, and so up to Los Angeles.

Leaving Los Angeles at 9 A.M.you may return by 4 P.M., with time for dinner at San Bernardino.
Taking the traveller back and forth across the central part of Southern California as it does, the kite-shaped trip is naturally a favorite with tourists, and, as its "catchy" name indicates, it caters to that element of travel.

One always sees also anxious and eager "prospectors" or expectant settlers, who lose no opportunity to inquire all about citrus and deciduous fruits, and prices of land and of water for irrigating the same.