Great Loop
1909 Great Loop – 2 – Leaving Chicago
by Ralph M. Pearson May 13, 1909 (note: chapter 1 is here) At last I was free. For the first time in seven years I was free from the chains of business, free from the stern, monotonous call of duty, free as a bird on the wing, with my home under me throbbing to the…
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1909 Great Loop Adventure – 1 – Retrospect
This marvelous text is by Ralph Pearson, my biological grandfather, who embarked from Chicago on an epic Great Loop voyage on May 3, 1909. There is a newspaper article from a couple of weeks later that gives a bit of an overview, but his unpublished book about the adventure begins here: Retrospect by Ralph M.…
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