It was a hard thing for me to get used to thinking o' the great distances of travel in America.

In Britain aboot the longest trip one wad be like to make wad be frae London tae Glasga or the other way around.

And that's but a matter of a day or a nicht.

Wull Morris showed me a route for my tour that meant travelling, often and often, five hundred miles frae ane toon tae the next.

I was afraid at first, for it seemed that I'd ha' tae be travelling for months at a time.