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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For more information, contact: Karl Chevalier, (802) 773-3526 , carsoft@aol.com



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