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Across the Continent
the Lincoln Highway
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We take luncheon at Paso Robles (Pass of the Oaks), famed for its healing waters. The hotel is pleasant and the new bath house with its handsome marble and tiling is very fine. Many sojourn here for the medicinal uses of the waters. Between Paso Robles and San Luis Obispo we come through a stretch of very beautiful country, part open forest land, part richly pastoral, the property of the Atascadero Company. The Atascadero[Pg 44] settlement is one of those Utopian plans for happiness and prosperity which bids fair to be realized. The climate is almost ideal, the scenery is charming, the country is richly fertile. They tell us that people are pouring in from the East and that the colony is growing constantly. At the north end of the Atascadero. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
She doesn't give much color commentary on the trip, but it's amazing to read about such a different time! She and her husband were in a car (actually two different ones, you find out at the end), but many others were doing this trip in covered wagons! I really enjoyed the glimpses into life 110 year
This book calls to mind the Johnny Cash song “I’ve Been Everywhere” …crossed the deserts bare, man. I’ve breathed the mountain air, man…Pasadena, Catalina, Reno, Colorado, Nebraska, Dayton…I’ve been everywhere. In the introduction Gladding explains that she and “T” (husband) intend to cross the U.S.
This is a travel account of the Lincoln highway starting in California in 1914. The first 40% of the book takes place in California as the author travels from the San Fransisco area down Los Angeles and on to San Diego. Then Gladding heads east through the fertile fields of fruit and vegetables to B
I don't know why, but I really like old travel books. This is the story of a cross country trip taken in 1910 on the country's first real "highway", the Lincoln Highway. It describes towns and cities, scenery, road conditions, how travellers secured accommodations, even descriptions of the roads and