John is from Pine Ridge in South Dakota.  This was the first time he had seen the ocean.

Whilst scouting in Hudson, in upstate New York, a friend and I stopped into a local diner, somewhat disheartened having accepted this was not to be our day and head back to the city.  Then in waltzed Larry.  Greeting everyone with a royal wave, and grinning crookedly beneath a straw hat, he shuffled into the [...]