Lauren Trevarthen and her parents joined LTC Garkey and me just outside the Seminole Nation and walked five miles.

I pushed Lauren in her wheelchair for one mile and LTC Garkey took over and pushed her for a while. We had so much fun. We even stopped at a service station and ate burgers in the back of their pick-up truck.

DAY 49 of my walk halfway across America to raise awareness to the plight of the more than 30,000 children aging out of foster care and into homelessness, each year in the US.

Kelly worked at the hair salon in Mena. She’d heard about my campaign on the country radio station that she and the other ladies at the salon listened to all day long.