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It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.

— James Houston

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✓Similar Perspectives

My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.

— John Pomfret

In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge.

— Haile Gebrselassie

Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.

— John Moody

Or in the early days we didn't have the bus, we had a station wagon.

— Mel Tillis

In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car.

— John Moody

A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas.

— Francis Parkman

We lived in a farm village, and no one could afford to buy a car or to fly. We were envious. We couldn't afford any toys. I couldn't imagine making a real car.

— Li Shufu

We were therefore obliged to unload our boats of their cargoes and pass them empty over the falls by means of long cords which we had provided for such purposes.

— William Henry Ashley

I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.

— Tiny Tim

✗Opposing Perspectives

The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder