The team: Richard, Bryan, and Ulla.

The Mayflower replica, Plymouth.

On Boston Common.

“Atticus Finch” in John Hancock’s chair.

The Treat Rotunda at the New England Historical Genealogy Society’s headquarters in Boston.

All aboard the California Zephyr.

Bear Lodge/Devil’s Tower, Wyoming.

With Serle Chapman by the Tongue River, Bighorn Mountains.

The climb to the Medicine Wheel, Bighorn Mountains.

Custer’s tombstone at the Little Bighorn battle site.

Buffalo in Yellowstone.

A steam vent in Yellowstone, gateway from another world.

Smoke from the Arnica fire drifts across Yellowstone Lake.

The Zephyr pulls into Emeryville, California, at the end of its journey.

From sea to shining sea: the Pacific at Ano Nueva, California.

Ulla at San Francisco Bay.

Bryan coming to grips with American football.

Sea lions relaxing at Pier 29, San Francisco.

The colonnades at Stanford University.

The Weatherford Hotel, Flagstaff.

Outside Stanford University.

On the way to Second Mesa.

Ulla in Utah.

The shadows lengthen over Monument Valley.

Hopi land meets modern times.

With Bennett Greenspan at the Houston headquarters of Family Tree DNA.

Union Station, Washington, D.C.

Ulla and the buffalo warrior, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington.

With Rev. Mark Thompson on the air at Sirius XM Radio.

With Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. outside the American Museum of Natural History, New York.

With Dr. Gates at the NEHGS Annual Dinner, Boston.

Job done: relaxing by Central Park, New York.