But it takes a while to get more than 40 riders ready to embark on a 20-day motorcycle excursion across the continent. Ahead of her ride the ghosts of two fearless young women, Adeline and Augusta Van Buren, whose unprecedented and daring journey Clickenger and the other riders are about to commemorate on the Sisters’ Centennial Motorcycle Ride. I for one couldn’t shake the feeling that exactly 100 years ago two brave women had surely placed here a memento. Along the way, the sisters would cross deserts, climb the Rocky Mountains, and be arrested for dressing like men. Now, at last, the ride is under way, heading west under police escort on Route 20 out of Springfield, Mass.

Source: Washington Post August 01, 2016 20:15 UTC