When Darla took off from Spokane, Washington, she thought she would be traveling around to see her country and to research information about cold cases. But to her surprise, after the first six months of traveling, everything changed, and she began crossing paths with people who told her some very interesting stories about their lives. Her faith was tested more than once, and she felt God guide her into meeting people that she would try and help as well as learn important life lessons from. She traveled to the west coast, to the desert of Nevada, and also lived among the almond trees in California. She was able to see some pretty cool places that she'd only seen and read about in schoolbooks (that was before the Internet, of course). There were times when she thought that she had had enough, but she kept on traveling and learned so much about people, traditions, and the country's history. The history of the many places she went to was, to say the least, "eye-opening," and the hard truth about how her white ancestors came to be settled in America took on a whole new unsettling meaning for her. It was an experience that she will never forget, and it made her a stronger woman, a better American, a better listener, and most of all, it made her a better human being.