A trip all the way from Oklahoma to Ohio was an undertaking. How had Rachel managed it all by herself?His mamm agreed to stay with the buwe in order for him to take a week and go fetch his wife. Gabriel contacted the bishop with his reasons for being gone from the church service. Gideon, John Paul, and Matthew volunteered to care for the crops, and Bill Foster agreed to take Gabriel to Holmes County as long as his wife could make the trip with them.The first day they made it as far as St Louis, Missouri. Gabriel had never seen a town so big. Cars everywhere, streets and highways going every which-a-ways. Although he would have liked to continue on, he was glad to have the chance to stop and rest for a while. That many people in one place was almost more than he could handle.They spent the night in a hotel and woke the next morning to eat breakfast and get on the road once again. Soon the green hills of Missouri gave way to Illinois, then Indiana, and finally to the golden wheat fields of Ohio.
