Irish Pirate
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I do apologize first. This is not exactly a 'jeep' post. However, regardless of they type of Jeep we all drive or how we use that rig we all have something in common beyond a brand name. We love the outdoors. We love nature. We love getting away from the hustle of everyday life. We are looking for something money cant buy and the city cant provide. And we love sharing it with someone we love from our spouse to our best friend to the new friend we just met on the trail.
This story comes from 1920's Auto Camping when good roads (or any road), comfort stations, and campgrounds were few and far between. Margaret and Edward Gehrke, visited all of the National Parks on roads the average driver would consider challenging trails today.
Edward and Margaret Gehrke, a childless couple from Lincoln, Nebraska, began traveling together to the national parks in 1915, when they stopped at the Grand Canyon on the way home from a trip to San Francisco. For the next quarter century, traveling first by rail and then in a succession of new Buicks (17 total), the couple would visit all of the national parks that existed at the time, 18 of them. During each summer journey, Edward snapped photographs and Margaret recorded their adventures in her journal. The journals and photographs were eventually given to the Nebraska State Historical Society.
In the 1930s, Edward built a “house-car,” but he died in 1939 before they could drive it to a national park. In 1948, Margaret traveled once more by train to Rocky Mountain National Park, the couple’s favorite destination.
This story comes from 1920's Auto Camping when good roads (or any road), comfort stations, and campgrounds were few and far between. Margaret and Edward Gehrke, visited all of the National Parks on roads the average driver would consider challenging trails today.
Edward and Margaret Gehrke, a childless couple from Lincoln, Nebraska, began traveling together to the national parks in 1915, when they stopped at the Grand Canyon on the way home from a trip to San Francisco. For the next quarter century, traveling first by rail and then in a succession of new Buicks (17 total), the couple would visit all of the national parks that existed at the time, 18 of them. During each summer journey, Edward snapped photographs and Margaret recorded their adventures in her journal. The journals and photographs were eventually given to the Nebraska State Historical Society.
In the 1930s, Edward built a “house-car,” but he died in 1939 before they could drive it to a national park. In 1948, Margaret traveled once more by train to Rocky Mountain National Park, the couple’s favorite destination.
