I have stories from my grandmother about parties they would attend in the Ukiah, Covelo area. They would set out to attend a party, stop for the night at a friend's house, play games and eat dinner till late. Get up the next morning, eat and head out to the party. Go dancing and eating, crash there for the night and get up the next morning to head home. But they would take another route home, stop at a friend's eat dinner, stay up playing cards etc...get up the next morning and head home. I looked up the route one time and thought WHY are they staying at friends places? Not just going to the party/dance and then heading back? Then it dawned on me they were traveling by horse back and wagon. What would take us a day or less to get to took them much longer. So they would make a holiday of it and visit as many far flung friends as they could before heading home. One story has the "youngsters" of the two families away for almost a week as they just went from house to house visiting and dancing. I bet they had a good time. Susan Boise, Idaho, USA -----Original Message----- From: norcal-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:norcal-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Linda Mock Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 7:10 PM To: norcal@rootsweb.com Subject: [NORCAL] Traveling Humboldt Co.~ 1890 Was reading an interesting article about travels. Thought it might interest you folks. 1890, the population was then about 8,000 persons in the Eureka area. The distants to San Francisco by steamer was about 221 miles (Coast sea travel), and the trip took about 20 hours, the fare for 1st. class was $10.00; 2nd class, $5.00....the overland STAGE was 180 miles to Ukiah. The San Francisco & Northern Pacific Railroad was 113, totaling 293 miles, and took 36 hours, for a fare of $16.50. About all I can say is that travel was an expense then as it is now, but by air gets you there faster, if you don't have to double back on your route. ~Linda~ Willow Creek, CA.