$DASH: A pilgrimage wrapped in Obamaphones

After many, many, many hours on the highways and byways of America, our pilgrimage has wrapped.

At least for now.

I saw so many deer, a few coyotes, not as many bad drivers as I would have assumed, endless construction, quite a few potholes (make that a lot of potholes in Chicago!) and lots of beauty.

Here's a typical morning on the road meeting in the lobby of our anonymous hotel in a random place in the middle of the giant map of America:

You can tell we've had our coffee already (my task every morning, and you can call it self-preservation, was to find the strongest available in that town) by the smiles on their faces.

We went to witness and learn about ourselves as a nation so our experience was quite different from the elite going on cringeworthy safaris to try to figure out WTF is wrong with those people who won't vote in their best interests (as those same elite determine is their best interests anyway).

Our journey ended in Boston where Max shared $DASH with a homeless community outside of Harvard University.

The really interesting thing here was that not only did they immediately grasp the idea of digital currency - in this case $DASH - but they all had 'Obamaphones.' I had only ever seen that phrase occasionally mentioned online as some sort of vague insult so thought these phones to be all myth. But here it was in actual use and these homeless men kept referring to it as their 'Obama phone.' They were given 1gig per month of data with the phone so they were able to download the $DASH wallet and actually also receive emails and browse. I wonder who continues to finance these phones all these years later? Regardless, I could see the value to these men.

Max also got to fly in a fighter jet, an actual relic of the last Cold War. I was in awe of how calm Max was taking 4Gs. Wait until you see it, coming soon on the Great American Pilgrimage.

[Signed, Stacy]