”“Jake complained of a headache, ringing in his ears and his eyes seem sensitive to bright lights. We allowed Jake to rest thirty minutes then ask...d him several questions. He didn’t remember the time from being injured to the ambulance ride to the hospital.”“Will Jake have to stay here overnight?” she wondered.“No, we can release him to go home.”“But we live in Trenton.”“He shouldn’t do any sudden movements or walking until he’s examined further back home.”“Honey, you and Jake can spend the. We saw a canal with a canal boat being towed along by mules on a tow path. It was a page right out of history and we were all fascinated by it."Couldn't we just load on a canal boat and ride it to Boston?" Cassie asked."I'm not sure you could get there from here," I said with a grin. "By this time, the canals were fairly extensive. If I remember right, the Erie canal ran all the way from Lake Erie to the Hudson River. Somewhere around 350 miles, I think. The trip took nine or ten days. Not much. They had both moved away to study law although at differentinstitutions, Karla had branched out into family law and as coincidencewould have it she ended up living in the same town as us. She and Laurenwere best buddies, that meant by default Karla and I were also friends.When Karla and I first met I don't think she was impressed, I alwaysthought that she didn't think I was good enough for Lauren, at leastthat's the impression she gave me.When I picked up the phone she greeted me by yelling,. "With those words, Howard C. Mathis, a former accountant, went from being a recently divorced Vice President to assuming the highest office in the land. Just ten years before, he had run for Governor of New Jersey, and was considered an underdog in that contest. He won, however, and that set him on the path that made his now disgraced predecessor, former President Norton Cornell, choose him as his running mate.Mathis's personal life had briefly dominated the front pages, with his divorce from.