Bright Friends: celebration of travel and nature adventures.
Meredith carefully crosses the Rocky Mountains through dangerous wintry roads. She arrives in Strasbourg, Colorado and observes several characters on her overnight stay. She cleans off Snowball, who resembles "a wet dog come from a swim", and continues on through Colorado to Kansas then to Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana. As she crosses the Erie Canal she reminisces about the old song, by the same name. "Think how we learned history, correct or not… from the songs we sang as children." She ponders how music brings us together - the "power in our collective voice". She reaches her friend's home, the two almost unrecognizable to one another. They are soon laughing as old friends do, talking about the election, and celebrating her friend's birthday. In the morning, Meredith is off toward Maryland and the comfort of her east coast family for Thanksgiving.
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