is so doggone beautiful we just have to stop for a few days and soak it up by this time i knew i was serious about it she was friendly enough but most of the time she gets busy with her pain when you tell me something what's the matter with me i don't know anything your son you've got your heart set on getting over the other side of the ocean and covering the big stories of course you're thinking about carly i've been lots of color and action up there i got to looking at the people and especially of their car that said there's many seventy million of us jump in our cars in the summer and i just  then we took a big swing through montana they say out here youngsters learn to walk almost as soon as they can right this is real vacation mother nature did some scoping of their own in south dakota badlands but you know they have a kind of eerie beauty all around and talk about contrast in north dakota we ran into the wee harvest again from there we go over to i guess the park in minnesota where the trees grow green and tall and every breeze makes its own kind of poetry in the tr that's where the mississippi began there it's so narrow you can walk across the how much traffic they handle as you drive down from minnesota and wisconsin you're in another perfect vacation like a land of trees and  it was beside one of those wisconsin lakes that i finally made up my mind to speak to of course wisconsin is no lake some gorgeous forest they have some of the richest dairy land in the country  i was enjoying it so much i hated the sea the trip that i tried to stretch it out as long as i could for instance we drove back west always to take in the iowa state fair you know i'd never been to a fair like that before and i'd missed aving fun as part of the state fair but there's another side over the country people get together affairs like this to compare lifestyle and to exchange new ideas about  plans which seem to me to be well just a little bit more important well i've got to write a letter well that's the story i think her paintings are too good to be looked at by a few people i think she has something to say about places and people that millions ought to see and think about it's something that millions of people feel right here even though they may not say much about it it's the same thing that ernie pyle saw when he traveled around the grassroots the real heart and hope of america maybe of the whole world let me show you and you can see it right in the face of this boy with this prize winning it's as big as our whole country but it's alive in the scene of a sheepherder all fall by himself alone but a part and a mighty important part of the way we work together it's right there in the face of this rust about a new oil field it's in the faces of all these people but it starts right close to the er look at the small town then at our farm our cities and our industry and you discover the real secret of america right here in the middle west don't you see what i mean think about printing one of these pictures every sunday millions of newspaper readers see them and maybe understand this country a little better i like them better yet i like what you say about you give me an article on each painting delaware talk and then we can talk about when you go back to paris to paris take this new point of view back with you gave me this kind of story about the people over there the places over there warm human stuff give me the same thing from europe but it isn't the same  people around the world but what i'm talking about what i've seen on the faces of these people what's in their lives their hearts their hopes their opportunities that's something i live right here in the middle west but i just suddenly realize that this is the only place in this world today where i can find the things i want to talk about this is a wonderful place for a vacation sure but more than that this is where i want to put my roots down to work and i've got a date a date yeah a date for the band