Driving across the US is a classic American pastime, but
perhaps the first road trip (1) took place in 1903. t
all started when Horatio Nelson Jackson was sitting in
a club in San Francisco, discussing cars with his friends
Cars were a recent invention at the time and
(2)
a comment that they were too
one
ble to
drive across the country Jackson bet his friends [tex]$50 that he could do it. He bought a new red car and set (3) Francisco on 23 May He had little ex cher and he didn't have a driver's licence because days you (4) one. There were no no petrol stations so he was (5) surprisingly, the car broke (6) way. At one point, he had to (7) pull him to the nearest town. On anothe was given bad directions and got lost road that he (8) not have taken In spite of all the difficulties, Jackson (9) to remain optimistic. He was helped that he was (10) from San driving un on a his best aple heard an attempt to cross the country and came out to support him. Finally, after 63 clays, Jackson arrived in New York. He'd won his bet of $[/tex]50, but spent $8,000 in the process
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