… New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Montana.
Lou stopped by our house in Helena 2 days ago, before continuing yesterday on his trip. He plans to go north through Canada again (Alberta, BC) and drop down into eastern Washington as he rides the last miles home.
He said the best part of his journey has been the people he has spent time with. That is America, more than the land. He often shares jokes and aphorisms with his acquantainces, such as “Fear knocked on the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.”
Lou is a unique man with a story of his own, of pain and healing, of knowing God and how constantly faithful that God is to those who trust in Him and in His son.
He also gave me the shirt off his back (after he washed it) 
which is a favorite of mine. It’s a Harley Davidson shirt, with a quote on it: “Not all who wander are lost.”
I shared with him the poem in the Lord of the Rings (Fellowship, p. 182) that sounds very much the same…
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
