In 1913 such a feat would have earned one admission to an exclusive motoring club, as indicated by the notice posted at
Centuries of Advice and Entertainment.
About fifteen years later, a trip of 240 miles in a day was a major adventure for a pair of farm girls. My mother was raised in Goodhue County, Minnesota. Each summer one of her aunts offered to drive mom and her sister "up to the lake" in northern Minnesota. The trip, to Kabekona Bay on the west side of Leech Lake in Cass County, could be completed in one day:
It required the assistance of a farm hand to help drive the Model T over gravel roads, but they could leave the farm at 0400 and be at the lake by midday. Then they could pick wild strawberries to mix with local cream, swim and sleep in a wooden shack and enjoy a respite from the endless chores of the home farm.
Nowadays, of course, you could drive up, fish all day, and be back home before dark.
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