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Alice Huyler Ramsey was a young New Jersey motorist who drove across the continent in 1909. Then there was Effie Hotchkiss, who in 1915 rode a motorcycle from New York to California and back with her mother in the sidecar. And Emily Post, the future authority on etiquette, wrote a book, By Motor To The Golden Gate, about her epic 1915 transcontinental odyssey.

At Jim Hinckley’s America we believe that the best way to understand America is with a road trip. So, for us Alice Ramsey is a role model, an example of why inspiring road trips is so very important to ensuring that the American story continues into the Route 66 bicentennial and beyond.

Next week our series about pioneering women and the dawning of the great American road trip continues with the story of Effie Hotchkiss, the first women to ride a motorcycle from coast to coast.