My father had just retire after 27 years as a manager for IBM. His job filled his day, his thought, his life. While he woke up and took a warm shower, I screamed under a freezing waterfall Peru. While he tied a tie and put on the same Swiss watch, I rowed a boat across Lake of the Ozarks.

　　My father sees me drifting aimlessly, nothing to show for my 33 years but a passport full of funny stamps. He wants me to settle down, but now I want him to find an adventure.

　　He agrees to travel with me through the national parks. We meet four weeks later in Rapid City.

　　“What is our first stop?” asks my father.

　　“What time is it?”

　　“Still don’t have a watch?”

　　Less than an hour away is Mount Rushmore. As he stares up at the four Presidents carved in granite(花岗岩), his mouth and eyes open slowly, like those of little boy.

　　“Unbelievable,” he says, “How was this done?”

　　A film in the information center shows sculptor Gutzon Borglum devoted 14 years to the sculpture and then left the final touches to his son.

　　We stare up and I ask myself, would I ever devote my life to anything?

　　No directions, no goals. I always used to hear those words in my father’s voice. Now I hear them in my own.

　　The next day we’re at Yellowstone National Park, where we have a picnic.

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