The First Great American Road Trip - 100 Years Ago

From San Francisco to New York City in a 1903 Winton - to win a $50 wager!

May 20, 2003
For immediate release:

The First Great American Road Trip

100 years ago: May 23, 1903:

To win a $50 wager, Horatio Nelson Jackson, a doctor from Burlington, Vermont, left San Francisco and headed for New York City on what would become an epic adventure - the first transcontinental automobile trip.

The used two-cylinder Winton motor carriage has no top or windshield, so the doctor and his co-driver are completely exposed to the elements for 6,000 miles.

It's 63 days of flat tires, no gasoline stations or road maps, bad weather and humans who keep sending them off track.

Bud, a bulldog who refuses to travel without his goggles, joins the trip in Idaho.

It is one heck of a story which is now on the Internet at www.LetMeShowYouVermont.com/roadtrip.htm

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