E31 Independence Another Step (and un-step)

You know that saying “A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step”?

It’s on all sorts of motivational swag. It’s not wrong, of course, but it’s a bit incomplete. ‘Cause regardless of the length of the journey, the first step isn’t enough. You gotta keep moving to get where you’re going.

This is a story of only a few miles of a journey. We really don’t know how long that journey will turn out to be. But...