We are almost back in the USA and Jake is excited. He can make calls on the cell and it won’t cost $15 a minute. And although he hasn’t seen Debi Bodett for years and only then when he was a baby, he is, “just extremely excited to see someone I know!”

Passing a handsomely wrought wood welcome sign in red, white and blue, a flag-inspired garden and an amazing sculpture all within 100 yards of the Border had quite an effect. Different for each of us. Jake sang America the Beautiful. Michael was mesmerized by a 20 x 20 foot sculpture depicting a swarm of fine wires surrounding a perfectly neat and empty rectangle of sky. As if a mass of barbed wire had been shot through by a semi truck. It hung in space, the opposite of a billboard, a stunning eruption of metaphors.