5 Minutes With Jim, Episode 104

On August 21, 1915, Roland Conklin of the Roland Gas Electric Motor Bus Company, his family, a chauffeur, mechanic, maid and cook family departed Huntington, New York for a two-month, 5,000-mile cross-country camping trip. Conklin, one of the wealthiest men in America, had commissioned construction of a 25-foot, 8-ton summer cottage on wheels that he dubbed the “Gypsy Van.”

On today's episode America's storyteller author Jim Hinckley shares the story of Conklin's amazing adventure, a tale about Edsel Ford and Lt. Dwight David Eisenhower's amazing adventure. 

This program is sponsored in part by the magical time capsule that is the Wagon Wheel Motel in Cuba, Missouri and through the magic of crowdfunding on the Patreon platform - www.patreon.com/jimhinckleysamerica