`` The toll booth operator came out with her iPhone to take our picture , '' Barnett said . Emily Anderson recreates Alice Maxwell 's 1909 coast - to - coast auto journey . Both women made the journey from NYC to San Francisco in a 1909 Maxwell DA . Passing cars kicked up dust and debris around the open road during 30-day periods . Anderson 's Maxwell suffered many breakdowns and hundreds of people helped along the way .
Emily Anderson recreates Alice Maxwell 's 1909 coast - to - coast auto journey . Both women made the journey from NYC to San Francisco in a 1909 Maxwell DA . Passing cars kicked up dust and debris around the open road during 30-day periods . Anderson 's Maxwell suffered many breakdowns and hundreds of people helped along the way .