***** For information about traveling on the mississippi as well as education and recreation, visit the
Mississippi River's home page. *****
For 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.
Lake Johanna is not as it was in the 1930's for Carl and his friends.
The University of Minnesota School of Agriculture at St. Paul has also grown.
St. Paul, Minnesota, has grown too.
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.
