***** For information about traveling on the mississippi as well as education and recreation, visit the Mississippi River's home page *****
For travel on the Upper Mississippi and many other waterways
visit Mark McClain's Cruising America's Waterways.
For more travel, visit the Mississippi River Travel Site and River Roads
For Upper Mississippi River stories and news, see Big River Magazine
If you want to see part of the river along which Carl Franson and Clarence Jonk navigated their houseboat,
visit the Upper Mississippi National Wildlife and Fish Refuge
Visit here for information about steamboats
Lake Johanna is not as it was in the 1930's for Carl and his friends
A history of the University of Minnesota School of Agriculture at St. Paul
A variety of maps for St. Paul, Minnesota
Visitor websites for San Francisco, California and for Fisherman's Wharf. They are naturally
not the same as they were when Carl Franson first saw them or how he described them in his memoir.
Here is a bit of information about the President Coolidge on which Carl Franson worked as a bellboy and
traveled to the Far East. In his memoir he wrote about these travels and included photos from that time.
The Far East
The President Coolidge sailed from San Francisco, to Hawaii, to Yokohama and then
south to Kobe
It made its way through the inland sea and followed the coastline of China from Shanghai to
Kowloon and it continued under the Southern Cross to Manila
Google has a map of places mentioned in Second Age.