“It wasn’t going to be easy to sleep all night with a steering whell poking into my abdomen with no chance to change position! But the exhaustion caused by driving for hours through that heavy mud, hanging on to a wheel stubbornly resisting me all the while (no power-steering then) proved to be a blessing in disguise, for I believe I slept for several hours.”

Excerpted from the book “Veil, Duster and Tire Iron” by Alice Huyler Ramsey (1961).