If I were a time traveler, I would love to visit the Wild West in the mid-1800s. Before there were railroads, airplanes or automobiles, people and mail traveled in stage coaches. It would take a month or more for mail to cross the country this way, and often mail was not delivered. Then a startup business called the Pony Express came along which delivered mail and small packages by horseback from Missouri to California in as little as 10 days. That is around 2,000 miles! People thought the business owner was crazy and the scheme would not work. The Pony Express needed to keep 500 horses available, with the rider changing to a fresh horse every 10-15 miles. The riders would travel about 75 to 100 miles before handing the mail off to a new rider.  “The mail must go through!” was their motto.  Not only bad weather was a test, but bandits, hostile natives, even injury to the horse or rider could stop the mail. The business lasted only 17 months before being replaced by technology in the form of a telegraph machine.  Yet the romance of riding across the West on horseback and delivering news from loved ones lives on to this day.  Purrs, Gulliver