Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

[Goodsport]

Don't forget to watch Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip tonight from 9pm-11pm.

It was made by acclaimed documentarian Ken Burns, who had earlier made award-winning documentaries such as The Civil War and Baseball.


-G

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

That was an excellent little documentary. It was amazing that he was able to do that without any corporate sponsorship.

You gotta hand it to that little car. We recently roadtripped up to Oregon, and the Taurus station wagon we took with less than 100K miles died in those Cascades. And that was on paved roads!

Overall, very entertaining. Makes me want to take another road trip.

 

[Goodsport]

It was a really good show!

One of the amazing feats is how they crossed southeastern Oregon, which averages about two people per square mile today! It turns out that it was in that area that, because of car trouble, four census beureau agents got lost for four days... in 1990!


-G