Horatio Nelson Jackson Speech

Have you ever thought about taking a road trip around the states, exploring and sightseeing new places you did not even think was even imaginable? One of the first American road trips was taken by a man named Horatio Nelson Jackson, who was 31 years old, on May 23, 1903. He was accompanied by a 22 year old man named Sewall Crocker on his road trip to New York City. Horatio was bet $50 by someone that he could not make it in less than 90 days in a car to New York City. Sewall Crocker was a former bicycle racer and was also an engine mechanic.
Back in the day, roads were barely paved. There were no road signs that told which direction one is needing to go to get to the destination, and there were no gas stations to fill up the tanks either.
Cars were most likely to breakdown, and there would not be any stores to get it fixed at. In today’s society, if one is hungry while driving down the road in a town he or she has never been in before, one would just pull over to the nearest fast food restaurant and grab a bite to eat. If one was hungry while being on a road trip back then, they would have to pack their own different kinds of snacks and foods.