If you want a single dramatic example of how much America has changed in the last century or so, stop talking about trips to the moon and super computers and start talking about this: in 1910, two brothers, Temple and Louis Abernathy, saddled up a pair of ponies and rode alone from their home in Frederick, Oklahoma, to New York City, almost 2000 miles away, to see Teddy Roosevelt give a speech. At the time, Louis, called “Bud”, was 10 years old, Temp was 6.
-DeNihilist
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The best I can do to beat that was my mother put me on a Trailways bus by myself in Tacoma and shipped my troublemaking ass to my grandparents in Hughson, CA during the summer of my7th birthday.