Coffee With Jim

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. 

There are road trips, and then there are epic road trips. The later is exactly what Harriet White Fisher experienced when she became known as the first woman to drive around the world. Her remarkable journey began in the summer of 1909. She and her traveling companions, with a pet monkey and dog, drove across Europe, Egypt, India, Ceylon, China and Japan before crossing the Pacific. Their adventure continued with the drive across the American West and Midwest. But this incredible road trip is only part of Harriet White Fisher’s amazing story.

On this episode of Coffee With Jim we share another exciting chapter in the American story. And we introduce you to the amazing Harriet White Fisher known as the “Iron Woman” of Trenton.

Coffee With Jim from Jim Hinckley's America is made possible through listener support on Patreon. It is also sponsored by the RouteTrip USA, Roadrunner Lodge Motel in Tucumcari, Gilligan's Route 66 Tours, Deana Nelson State Farm Insurance, Two Lane America and the Enchanted Trails Trading Post & RV Park in Albuquerque.