Now That Was A Road Trip

If you get a chance, try to catch the latest Ken Burn's documentary
Horatio's Drive on PBS.

In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping to become the first person to cross the United States in the new-fangled "horseless carriage." At the time there were only 150 miles of paved roads in the entire country, all of them within city limits. There were no gas stations and virtually no road maps as we know them today. Most people doubted that the automobile had much of a future. Jackson's trip would prove them wrong.

In Minneapolis the two hour program will be broadcast tonight at 8pm. Check your local PBS stations for air times and dates.