Re: August 31...This day in history...

Posted by Dan On 2010/8/31 13:36:18

Brings to mind a story I read in Antique Automobile back in the 70's.

Two young men graduated from high school in 1911 & decided to celebrate by driving cross country in (if memory serves correctly) a Moline Dreadnought provided by the manufacturer.

The story chronicles their fording rivers or crossing them on RR bridges , following telegraph poles across the great plains, and various breakdowns.

They completed the journey, although one of the men decided to continue walking around the world & never made it back home...