quit that's what i thought how would you feel if you were me i'd worked hard enough to get into that paris office and i worked hard to get good news sources in europe i was all set then you'll pull me back here for your own good because you've forgotten of a reporter you are writing editorials not news stories we want to know what other people think that's why i told you to take a vacation you needed to get back to the grassroots get a little closer to people  this is my vacation in picture that's really what i want to talk to you about i want you to have first crack at ok you told me to take a vacation think it over when i left here just threw some camping gear into a station wagon took off or not a few miles out of the city i got an idea there was lake michigan looking cool and inviting i thought why not man as i drove north i couldn't get that gal out of my mind then out of town along the way i stopped to get some gas and maybe learn something about the local scenic spot a funny thing happened i guess i had luck on my side because right there was the same painting of the late where'd you get that i just thought it was like if i go yeah i kinda like that maybe i just like the gallup editor was pretty  i started to keep an eye out for a car with a trailer and a few miles up the road they were obviously i'm some kind of  pulled into a pretty grove the pines and made ourselves comfortable then i heard music state park in india takes you back there's no water wheel air still running just as it did when our forefathers build it more than a hundred years ago everybody seemed to be in a holiday we drove over to new salem illinois where abraham lincoln lived as a young man the old log buildings have been carefully restored as a monument to his mem to pressure like must have been pretty rough in those days to travel around behind a pair of oxen we swung west of the mississippi in turn we were looking at some the country to another and nobody says we can't find the river we cross the bridge that leads into hannibal missouri mark twain's hometown the whole world has come to know and love and through his books you can still see settings the come to life in his books like mark twain home in times or years famous white set not far away is a statue to tom and his friend huck finn the first that you ever put up in america to people out of a book from there we rode across missouri to kansas city where we saw one of the most beautiful war memorials in this country from there you get a fine view of the city itself talk about a handsome building you want to see the state capital of lincoln corn belt of nebraska and then cancel we stop in dodge city to see famous old boot hill they really died with their boots on in those days nearby is a monument to the front eared a couple of which reminded us how much progress we've made in beef  off in the distance you don't realize how big this country yesterday get around and see it then we left the plains and began climbing up into rocky mountain  there are plenty of mountains all right you keep climbing higher and higher for miles on trail ridge road you can actually see the timber line below you you're riding right on the top of the world