Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling.

Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

Piando Ferries, there is another way.

This is John Batcher, conversation with the author Nathaniel Philbrick, for his book Travels with George in

search of Washington and his legacy.

Here Nathaniel talks about the old wives tale of when George Washington came riding by in his tour of New England and the south and the area around Washington, seeing as many people as he could while he was president in between the

moments he was in Philadelphia and there are stories that have gone on for more

than a hundred than 200 years about George Washington was here.

Here's what he said.

Nathaniel tells another one of those stories and he's come to credit them.

As repeated, and there's such good stories,

you're tempted to doubt them.

But Nathaniel Philbrick on the stories

told about George Washington came riding by.

More of this tonight on Travels with George.

And then another version of the story is a child stares and

wonder at Washington.

And Washington looks down at the child and says yes child I may be the president I may be George

Washington but I am only a man and initially I was thinking, well, these are the kinds of oral traditions that are just either too good to be true or reflect the time that they were remembered, which was often the 19th century told by an old lady or an old woman who had seen George Washington.

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