Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Bay Day 1


John Adams and two companions arrive on horseback in Philadelphia, the largest city in British America with 30,000 inhabitants, on Thursday, February 8, 1776 after a two week ride through bitter winter cold from Braintree, Massachusetts. Departing from Minneapolis in a climate controlled airliner, Lola and I land in San Francisco four hours later in the heart of six million United States citizens living in the Bay Area. The changes over the 230 years between these two points in time are the American Miracle.

Vacation blogging … edited and updated later.