Daily Life

At Car Lust!

"In today's episode of Car Lust, we'll follow a young mother and
two  of her children as they drive over the river and through the
woods to  Grandmother's house in the family car.

Sounds exciting, eh?

  

"At this point, you may be wondering what's gotten in to me. After
all, taking the kids for a drive to visit relatives is a pretty mundane
activity. You've done it yourself, probably more times than you can  count.

"This particular trip to this particular grandmother's house, however,
was a momentous event in automotive history. When Frau Bertha Ringer Benz
of Mannheim, Germany loaded her two teenage boys on the family automobile
that day in August of 1888 and set off for her mother's house in Pforzheim,
it was in fact the first time anyone, anywhere on the planet, had used
an automobile for personal travel. That would make the trip one for the
history books all by itself, but there's even more to the story. 
Frau Benz would accomplish quite a few more automotive "firsts" in the
course of her 65 mile adventure.

 
"In today's episode of Car Lust, we'll follow a young mother and two
of her children as they drive over the river and through the woods to
Grandmother's house in the family car. "

Including an interactive map and a movie!  (auf Deutsch!)

~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>