Mon 22 Oct 2007
Amazing cross-country trips
by Russell Rein
Posted in Travel
- Home Education Magazine alerts us to the “Woman Who Dare” series at the Library of Congress including “Sara Bard Field, who carried a suffrage petition by car from San Francisco to President Woodrow Wilson in Washington, D.C. — before the Lincoln Highway was paved or even clearly marked.”:
http://www.homeedmag.com/blogs/resources/?p=441Read more about it the Library of Congress:
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2006/06-208.htmlThere’s a 54 minute webcast at the Library of Congress:
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4012 - 18 year old bicycler David Kunes does a transcontinental trip on US 6:
http://www.mccookgazette.com/story/1244668.html - Bill Inman is traveling coast to coast on horseback, from Wyoming’s Green River Star:
http://xrl.us/6yroAnd visit Bill’s website at:
http://www.uncoveringamerica.com/ - Here’s one I haven’t heard of. A new book is out: C.C. Pyle’s Amazing Foot Race: The True Story of the 1928 Coast-to-Coast Run Across America. Read more about it at the publisher - Rodale Books website:
http://xrl.us/6xnp