Tony Hudson

LANGLEY, British Columbia – “You must be out of your mind.” No one said it. But it had to be what most reasonable people were thinking when they heard what Christian and Laura Rowland had decided to do.  

FLINT, Mich. – Leo and Miosha Robinson know what people think. And it hurts.

BAR NUNN, Wyo. – Trent Fetherston had a reputation – the kind of reputation a man will get in an everybody-knows-everybody kind of town like Bar Nunn, Wyoming, when he spends what seems like thousands of consecutive happy hours with a drink in his hand and a chip on his shoulder.

BAR NUNN, Wyo. – Baggs, Bairoil, Glendo, Granger, Medicine Bow, Meeteetse – race past them at the posted interstate speed limit of 80 miles per hour, and one after another, every tiny town in Wyoming can easily look like the same blink-and-you’ll-miss-it blur out the passenger-side window.

LAREDO – They didn’t want to do it, but they had no choice.

PROVO, Utah – In Provo, appearances can be deceiving.

SNEADS FERRY, N.C. – Brittany Brown will never forget the evening of November 19, 2005. But her memories of that night, the night she gave birth to her second child, are anything but typical.

SNEADS FERRY, N.C. (BP) – The bathroom smells like shrimp, the office is packed with preschoolers, and up on stage, all the Neverland props from the previous night’s very-off-Broadway performance of “Peter Pan” have been shoved to one side.

PHILADELPHIA – The rain came at the worst possible time. Every Saturday afternoon at precisely 2 p.m., the Chery family drags amplifiers and mic stands and folding chairs and extension cords out the front door of their house, loads them into all the trunks and back seats they can round up, and then they drive across town to a rented storefront in the Philadelphia suburb of Lansdowne.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (BP) – Josh and Beth Glymph are different, but not in the way people might expect.