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| Wed., September 24th |
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Mileage |
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Total Mileage |
| 558miles |
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8,304miles |
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time
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place[(route)via]
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remarks |
impression |
| 09:50 |
Left Browns Motel |
Cloudy |
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| 10:00 |
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Food supply: $4.99.
Breakfast: ramen |
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| 13:31 |
[rt80- near Otawa - Joliet - toll way(15
cents) - last exit before Indiana Toll |
Oil supply: 15.6gal. |
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Indiana - Ohio |
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| 16:25 |
Tiffin River rest area |
Coffee & Doughnut |
They refilled coffee again, worrying about money. |
| 18:01 |
Erie Islands
Service Plaza |
Oil supply: 14.4gal. |
Three of them were hungry and felt bad.
Still they had to try to find a camping ground, driving over 100 miles. |
| 20:10 |
Roundup Lake Camp Ground |
Time difference
Put the clock 1 hour behind.
Camping charge: $3.00.
Dinner: curried rice.
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All the money of them is only 4 dollars.
Tomorrow is the last day, but uneasy. |
| Thu., September 25th |
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Mileage |
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Total Mileage |
| 512 |
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8,816 |
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| 10:08 |
Left Roundup Lake Camp Ground |
Cloudy |
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| 10:45 |
to Junction 5 |
Oil supply: 8.1gal. |
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| 11:50 |
Warren, Ohio |
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[rt7-rt80]
Ohio - Penn |
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[rt80-rt36- rt322] |
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| 13:24 |
rest area |
Lunch: orange & doughnut |
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| 14:05 |
Clearfield |
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[rt879-Int80] |
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| 14:38 |
rest area,
Snow Shoe |
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[rt80-rt22-rt26] |
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| 15:20 |
Arrived at University Club |
Arrival at University Club,
State College, Pennsylvania |
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Total travel days: 26 days
(camping 17 nights, motels 8 nights)
Total mileage: 8,816 miles (14,105km)
Total consumption oil: 451 gallon. |
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| Drive across the United States for 26 Days, 1969 |
| End |
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| Looking Back |
| (as of February 18th, 2015) |
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Nearly forty six years have passed since this 26-day trip around the United
States.
That year, in 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the moon in July two months before
the three guys started for the trip.
Around that time in addition to the Apollo 11:
The yen's exchange rate to U.S. dollar was fixed as 360 yen.
It was the days the Vietnam War dragged on and the effort for peace just
began.
In Japan, student powers were at the peak and the entrance examination
to Tokyo University was stopped. New Nippon Steel, a giant steel company,
was born by a merger of Yahata and Fuji Steels.
It was late May when Shig was sent to the United States as a student at
Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) for one year by Daido Steel,
leaving his wife and a baby in Japan.
He had been learning English conversation since then preparing for his
original purpose beginning in October as the fall term.
This trip must have had a considerable influence on Shig's view later in
life concerning the climate and traditional culture of Japan as an island
country, as well as the world including the United States.
While working for the English Edition of "Viva, Seniors!", this
memory came to his mind, even if it was not his experience in Japan.
Shig wishes this article to be helpful to his present work of the introduction
of Japan in his heart.
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