George Washington’s 1789 Road Trip Across the New United States
History Unplugged Podcast
History Unplugged
4.2 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So, will it be skiing? |
| 0:03.0 | Or Christmas markets on a city break? |
| 0:06.0 | Skiing? Or a city break? |
| 0:09.0 | Some problems are good problems to have. |
| 0:12.0 | Especially with flights this winter from 29.99 one-way |
| 0:17.0 | and package holidays from £159 per person. |
| 0:21.0 | Get viking at EasyJet.com |
| 0:24.0 | Selected dates, holidays at all protected based on two adults |
| 0:27.0 | for three nights, travel restrictions and season C supply. |
| 0:58.0 | When it came to the New England tour, |
| 1:00.0 | he visited 60 towns and villages alone. |
| 1:03.0 | That took a month. |
| 1:05.0 | The longest one would be the southern tour, which would be three months. |
| 1:08.0 | It's a joke today, Washington slept here, all the sleeping around. |
| 1:12.0 | But what he was doing was by visiting all these towns and staying in these public tap rooms. |
| 1:17.0 | This was hard work for him. |
| 1:19.0 | Part of him enjoyed the travel, but the other part was extremely repetitive, |
| 1:23.0 | arduous, physical way, and took a lot of time. |
| 1:28.0 | Particularly when we think of our schedules today, |
| 1:31.0 | taking three months off to where the south is kind of extraordinary. |
| 1:47.0 | History is in just a bunch of names and dates and facts. |
| 1:50.0 | It's the collection of all the stories throughout human history |
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