How Bad Was It?-- The Lincoln Highway in 1915-- Part 4

Continuing the "fun"trip across Iowa way back then, before "hard surface roads."

In a magazine article in Motor Age, Bement wrote that "Joy was having the time of his life...he laid on his back in 18 inches of gumbo mud with the rain in his face and examined parts to see how they were standing up."

We have pictures of them fixing a brake west of Ames, Iowa, May 31st, then adjusting them. Next, they are fording what appears to be a stream, but is actually the highway west of Boone. The water eventually got to what they called "within 10 inches of tops of fence posts."

June 1st, breakfast was again taken on the side of the road. No McDonald's Dollar breakfast selections for them.

I Think I Would Even Stick With an Interstate at This Point. --RoadDog