I remembered that in school in Germany, we had studied Greek mythology. We studied Apollo and how the Greeks sought his chariot was the sun. Every day was an epic journey for him to travel from the east to the west. Because of this size of America, I thought I was setting out on an epic journey. It was just me and my car driving from the east to the west. In my studies about America, I had read that in vain the Amish, who were of German descent, had settled parts of Pennsylvania. I wanted to go from New ...