The Lincoln Highway Tour

So here I am, posting on our blog for the very first time!  If you haven't heard, this is the blog I started for our trip on the Lincoln Highway.  We encourage you to share this with your family....but we ask that you respect our privacy by NOT SHARING on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Thank you so much for respecting our wishes.

Now the first few blogs will be how we heard about this fun trip, and all the stuff that goes with it. Then we will take you along for the ride with us. We hope you will enjoy the trip.

Lets start at the beginning....

Vaughn and Nelda were both born in Coalville.... whoops, wrong beginning!!!  Lets try this again!

                                                                 IN THE BEGINNING

As most of you know, Vaughn has been working in West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania for the better part of 4 years.  About twice a year I go with him, and spend 2 weeks doing the stuff I love most (except the love I have for my kids(includes spouses) and grandkids, they come first and foremost!), like shopping at the local quilt shops, antique shops, spending time with the big V, and while I'm doing these things Vaughn is busy working!  Poor guy.  He is so generous to work hard for the money for me to spend in the above mentioned loves! (Kids and grandkids included)  Anyway, back to the story.....In April 2012, I went with him to work.  At that time,  they were in the process of moving the drilling rig into Ohio from West Virginia where they had been drilling,  They were having a difficult time getting the permits needed to move to Ohio.  So therefore, we had 2 weeks of vacation, and we traveled a lot of the state of Ohio and one day we found ourselves in Canton.  We were told of a really neat antique car museum in the basement of the McKinley Hotel.

 

This is a beautiful hotel, and I would have loved to stay there, maybe another time.  Anyway, we went to the basement and found so many neat old cars.  And we also found a couple of gentlemen who were on the board of the Lincoln Highway Association.  We started talking to them and they told us a little about the Lincoln Highway.  I knew that the LH went right through our little town of Coalville, right down main street to be exact!  But that is about all I knew.  It was the first road to connect the east coast to the west coast. If you want to read more about it, this is the book to read.

 

We immediately bought this book and in talking to these men, found out that in June 2013, there would be a 100th anniversary tour of the this great Lincoln Highway, which by the way was named after our great president Abraham Lincoln. I turned to Vaughn and said, We are going to be on this tour!!
We found out that there would be people starting out from San Francisco, California, and also from Times Square New York, and driving about 250 miles a day, and meeting in Kearney Nebraska for a week long celebration.  Kearney Nebraska is the halfway point on this highway.  We couldn't think of too much else for the next few days.  And we immediately knew what car we were going to drive on this tour! And we had exactly 14 months to get it ready!