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- [Narrator] On the
afternoon of May 23rd,

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1903, they were ready to go.

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The two men started down San
Francisco's Market Street

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to cross the bay on
the Oakland Ferry

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for their long journey east.

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It was the beginning of
America's first road trip.

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A trip that would collect
a thousand impressions

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of a country and a people

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on the cusp of
extraordinary change.

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- [Dr. Horatio Nelson
Jackson] My darling Swipes,

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the hardest work I ever did
was to say goodbye to you.

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I came pretty nearly
having cold feet.

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There isn't one woman in
a thousand that would let

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a fellow do what I have done

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and I can tell you old
girl, I appreciate it.

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Please give my best
love to your mother

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and tell my father and mother

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that I love them
as much as ever.

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I shall write you when I can

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and shall depend on you
to keep them posted.

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Yours til New York, Nelson.

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P.S., take good care of
yourself and don't worry.

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- There is no thing
that we can do that is

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more American than
getting in a car

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and striking out across country.

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I think as a nation we
can think of few things

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that draw us more strongly than

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a piece of roadway heading
to we know not where.

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This is the way that we grow up.

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This is the way that
we enter our history.

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Get in a car and
find the country.