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TWO
April 27th, 1908.
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April 27th, 1908.
Eureka, I’ve found it—the Great Idea—the craziest scheme that ever popped into a woman’s head!
We’re going home—back to California on a tandem bicycle. We’ll carry a cooking and sleeping outfit with us, stop wherever the night finds us, work when we can get it, and somehow, with God’s help, we’ll win through.
And it has come about in the strangest way. Dan got a chance to help a man he knows clean out an old barn which is to be converted into a garage, and in the loft along with the accumulation of years, they ran across a tandem bicycle which is in excellent condition. The owner gave it to Dan’s friend who thought he could sell it for something, even though cycling is out of date.
When Dan told me of the occurrence an intense longing for the open road leading into the west surged over me, but I could see no way of securing the wheel since our funds totalled less than five dollars.
Then I said to myself, “There is a way. You must find it,” and resolutely set my subconscious mind to the task.