Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure

Came across this on buddy Denny Gibson's website. On a Memorial Day weekend trip along the National Road, he visited Frostburg, Maryland and ate at the Princess Restaurant which is celebrating its 70th anniversary, which is reason enough to visit the place.

However, back in 1953, after he left the presidency, Harry Truman and wife Bess went on a three-week 2500 mile road trip, the first and only president to do this without Secret service, bodyguards, or attendants. They stayed in cheap motels or with friends. He ate at this restaurant and the booth he was at is still there. Denny, of course, just had to get his picture taken in the booth and had a long talk with the owner.

Matthew Alego has written a book on the road trip called "Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure." The Trumans stumbled into an outside shoot of the Today Show and in Pennsylvania, was pulled over for careless driving.

In one section of the book, Truman and his wife, after packing 11 suitcases and leaving Independence, Missouri, stopped at a diner in Hannibal, Missouri, and thought they were getting away with being unrecognized and paying the bill when some county judges came in "and the incog was off."

Looks like a book worth checking out. Can't wait for the PBS or History Channel documentary, if there is one.

I'm Just Wild About Harry. --RoadDog