Article: Calif. man plans another trip across U.S. in golf cart

Codell Rodriguez
University Wire
04-10-2000
(Daily Egyptian) (U-WIRE) CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Two years ago, George Bombardier passed through Carbondale during a trip he made across the United States in his golf cart. Now he plans to make the cross-country adventure again.

Bombardier, 59, is a retired roofer and inventor from San Bernardino, Calif. In 1998, he made the trip from Bloomington, Calif. to Fairfield, Conn. in a 1993 Club Car golf cart to see his children for the Fourth of July.

He said the makers of the golf cart said it was impossible to make a trip across the nation in a golf cart, so he wanted to prove them wrong. However, this year, Bombardier said he is doing it because he just ...

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