Someone had called into the paper saying that there was a man who looked strange riding his horse down a busy road carrying an American flag. The reporter and I raced out of the office and tried to find this man but it seemed as though he had disappeared into thin air. The next day I was driving back to the office after an assignment and there he was sure enough riding that horse down the road. The man it turns out is named, Matthew McDaniel, and he and his horse, Hampton, were riding from Oregon to Washington DC to bring awareness in the United States about Akha human rights issues in Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, China and Vietnam. This is a common occurance in Lynchburg. People seem to always come through town on the way to promoting their various causes in DC. Since I have been here we have had a cross country moped man, monks, various runners and bike riders, and apparently a unicyclist.
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