Bob Waldman on Instagram: "The OG 😎 #roadtrip #driving #carhistory #barbet *️⃣ Hat tip to @bigfurmovie *️⃣ In 1903, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson made the first cross-country road trip in an automobile. On a $50 wager, Jackson, who did not even own a car, bought a two-cylinder 1903 Winton touring car and hired a mechanic, Sewall K. Crocker, to join him. They named their car “The Vermont.” The journey began in San Francisco on May 23 and ended in New York City 63 days later. They had to navigate a

Bob Waldman on Instagram: "and what they’ll try 😮 #roadtrip #indianmotorcycle #crosscountry #horsebackriding The Abernathy Brothers, Louis “Bud” and Temple, were two young sons of U.S. Marshal John “Catch-‘Em-Alive Jack” Abernathy from Oklahoma. Their father encouraged a “strenuous life.” The Abernathy brothers’ first celebrated independent ride was in 1909. Bud, aged nine, and Temple, aged five, rode their horses, Sam Bass and Geronimo, over 1,000 miles from Frederick, Oklahoma, to Santa Fe, N