CAA members Sue & Roger Murray are frequent world travelers and huge fans of Andreas Nemitz’s “Coaching in Bavaria” trips. Their most recent trip horse-drawn trip with Mr. Nemitz and his crew was a two-week ramble through Tuscany.

Sue sent the video I’ve posted below, and she said, “I was on the box seat of the Shooting Break when we had to cross a dry stream bed through a stand of bamboo. We proceeded very slowly (“langsam”) because the Break was carrying six other passengers, as well as the horses’ hay for lunch. The steep hills and eroded Roman roads were challenging even for the very fit Kladruber and Oldenburg horses.”

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As always, if the embedded video won’t work on your computer, you can get directly to the video on YouTube here.

And, finally … a fabulous (but undated) street scene from Rome, Italy:

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(from the Jack & Marge Day collection)

Next, we have a portrait of a delivery boy and his horse:

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(from the Jack & Marge Day collection)

One of the CAA’s directors was here in the office not long ago. He left (temporarily) in my possession an enormous binder with his collection of old photos, reminding me that I’d asked members to share their old photos with me and, through the blog, with you. It will be a huge scanning project, but I hope you’ll enjoy seeing the old photos here on the blog as much as I’ve been enjoying browsing through the collection.

As a preview of things to come, I’ve scanned three photos to show you through Sunday.

First, we have a “paparazzi” shot of two U.S. presidents: Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft, being driven to the Capitol in a snowstorm on March 3, 1909:

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(from the Jack & Marge Day collection)

In this video, a man remembers the days of horse-drawn milk deliveries …

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