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Sep 10
22m 30s

Honeymoon Road: Pete & Me & our Model T

Kitty Felde
About this episode

In 1925, newlyweds Pete and Gert packed up their lives and  headed west for California in a Model T Ford. Gert chronicled the
journey in a series of letters.

Now, one hundred years later, a pair of cousins Kitty Felde and Marie Felde follow their route to see America through their eyes.

Join us on a podcast journey at honeymoonroad.com.

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