Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider.

The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.

Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.

I worked at Ikea as a customer service rep for two years and loved it.

The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.

I didn't want to fizzle out. I had to keep going, like a little Shetland pony.