Despite my ability to embelish details, I find it near impossible to describe a recent 18-day road trip with my best friend in the whole world…husband, Don. From Connecticut to Wyoming, now I understand why Grandfather Coco would say, “This great country!”  We rode a paddleboat, train, stagecoach, and segway.  We saw family, friends from years gone by, and everything from prairie dogs, a white buffalo, Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Black Hills, the Badlands, Devil’s Tower, a cave, Gerald Ford’s Presidential Museum, Lake Michigan, the 114th National Hobo Convention, and the last day of my beloved Yankee Shoe Repair.  What touched my heart was everywhere in the Midwest all entertainment began with a salute to our American Veterans.  God bless this great country, the United States of America!