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From Rotterdam the main points were then Breda, Antwerp, Gent to Oostende. I missed the ferry by five minutes and had to wait three hours for the next. Got out of Oostende about four o'clock in the afternoon on Saturday. Sailed over to Dover and slept between Dover and Canterbury again. Sometimes it would happen that a ferry was full, and there was no room for any more cars, stowed under the high deck and Captain's lookout, with large windows and steerage. Sometimes the ferry was filled before the entire line-up was accommodated, and those later in line would have to wait for the next ferry. I had an advantage here again with a scooter with it so-small, they could always fit it on, near the drop-door though otherwise full with cars and trucks. And then near the door, I was one of the first-ones out. They always put it near the door, and out of the way.
On the ferry from Oostende to Dover I got the third degree from a customs officer whose sphere of operation apparently was on the ferry. He pulled me into his little cuppy-hole office and couldn't understand why I was carrying so much money. He was young, blonde, seemingly not that long out of college, and I could talk to him. He may have just pulled me in at random by my scruffy looks. Can't imagine he would have time to pull everyone in as a matter of course. I had a lot of money in American Express travellers checks, which was to last my whole trip, for a year or more in theory. The idea here was I had refundable money, in the event the checks were stolen or lost.
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