On 01/06/2011 02:58 PM, [email protected] wrote: > My mother's family moved from the Northeastern USA to California, by > automobile, in the late 1920's. From what she told me, and what I have read, many of the roads in the desert portions of the American West in those days didn't even have gravel on them; they were just a collection of ruts left by previous vehicles, with, if you were lucky, a few signposts at junctions. It took her family three weeks to drive across the USA, which today would take four or five days by car, or a few hours by plane
More like a day to a day and a half by plane. You can't just count airtime, that'd be like only counting freeway time for a drive. > I can well believe that some side roads would still be in this condition. Most of the Muscovee Nation is indeed that way still. I have friends who live near the Osage/Muscovee line, and my Malibu is definitely covered in a thick layer of red dirt from driving on those "roads."
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