CHAPTER X.
FIRST TOUR ABROAD Mexico--Guatemala--Salvador--Panama--Colombia--Venezuela--Jamaica -- Cuba--Fire in Amarillo--Rebuilding.
Among the many long trips leisure has permitted, the first was a tour through Mexico, Guatemala and Salvador to Panama; thence through Colombia and Venezuela; Jamaica and Cuba; needless to say a most interesting tour.
Mexico has a most delightful climate at any time of the year, except on the Gulf Coast, the Tierra Caliente, where the heat in summer is tropical and oppressive.

She has many interesting and beautiful towns.
The city itself is rapidly becoming a handsome one, indeed an imperial one.

Accommodation for visitors, however, leaves much to be desired.

The country's history is of course absorbingly interesting, and the many remains of Aztec and older origin appeal much to one's curiosity.

There is a capital golf-course, a great bull-ring, and a pelota court.