Cancer leads to a simpler path
KINSMAN — Everybody’s heard the adage, “Take time to stop and smell the roses.”
Lee “The Horselogger,” a Montana man who’s traveling across America in a homemade covered wagon, expresses it a little differently.
“Just learn how to say ‘Yee haw!’” he proclaims as he sits in the shade outside the wagon that’s been his humble home on wheels for nine months. “That’s what this [cross country] trip is about — learning how to say ‘Yee haw!’ Life is short. Enjoy it.”
It may sound like a corny cliché, but Lee — who wants to be known only as “The Horselogger” — means it from the bottom of his big, eccentric heart.
After he was diagnosed with lymphoma in 2005, Lee, 46, decided part of his cancer treatment would include a trip across America — a pilgrimage where he could see the countryside and savor each day in the slow lane.
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