[skiwi]

Just happened to notice this being seeded as a torrent at http://conspiracy.hopto.org:6969/

Never heard of him myself but I'm sure some of you in the US in particular have
Maybe we should be laying part of the blame for peak oil on this guy
a quick google search will bring up many links

Horatio's Drive
Horatio's Drive
America's First Road Trip
By Ken Burns &  Dayton Duncan

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.

[Guest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('skiwi', '
')Maybe we should be laying part of the blame for peak oil on this guy
....a 20-horsepower

[CarlinsDarlin]

I actually watched that when it was on last year (I think it was last year?). Anyway, it was a pretty good story. I particularly enjoyed watching how he got himself across vast stretches of land with no road in site. I was entertaining and interesting. Watch it if you get a chance. Tom Hanks does Horatio's voice in the narrative.
Kathy