out-and-home

Updated: August 6, 2026

"Steam navigation and railways have so far reduced the difficulties and uncertainties of Western travel, that it is now as easy and as cheap to spend one's autumn holidays, as I have done, in a trip to America of some eleven thousand miles out-and-home, as fifteen years ago it was to get to John o' Groats and back by land conveyance, or to go a-shooting in Sutherlandshire which, by-the-bye, is an out of the way and dismal sort of county even yet.

E. W. (Edward William) Watkin - Canada and the States