In June 2010, after President Carter returned to his hometown 30 years later, Qi Tian and Yuan Jun met him in a Catholic church in Pres City. He spread out the Bible, found a passage and read it, then began to express his own feelings: "In fact, I just want to remind everyone, remind all Americans, that there are many places in this world beyond our sight. God teaches us to love our neighbors, which will make us ignore those who are thousands of miles away..." After the service ended, Carter was already standing outside the door, holding his wife's hand, leaning against a shrub, waiting for the tourists coming out to take pictures together. The two Chinese young people walked up and stood beside the couple. The four smiled at the camera. Standing next to Carter, Qi Tian heard Carter kept saying "welcome you, thank you, hope you can come to see me again in the future."
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In August 2010, when the journey was nearing its end, the two people reached New York. "When we were in New York, we had countless opportunities to see the Statue of Liberty, but we didn't go," they gave their reason: it was a "too touristy attraction" and "we wanted to take a more real America."
Li Yuanjun took a photo with Carter and his wife. Qi Tian and Li Yuanjun interviewed the Indians.
On August 27, 2009, the two packed their luggage, picked up their cameras, and set off on the road with their two-wheel drive RAV4. About a month after the start of the journey, the two young men arrived in Chicago, Illinois. In early October, their two-wheel-drive RAV4 finally crossed the Missouri River and entered the western United States.
Qi Tian, an 80s-born Beijing boy, and Li Yuanjun, a Henan girl, met at a classmate gathering during their studies at the University of Pennsylvania. One studied architecture, the other electronics. After completing their studies, the two made a decision that would affect them for life - not to get married, but to spend a year driving across the United States from Philadelphia! Thus, they had 60,000 kilometers of roads, 48 states, and 100 cities...
To find the true Native Americans, the two came to the Pine Ridge Reservation at the foot of the Black Hills. There, they met a Lakota family: two middle-aged women were busy around a car full of bullet holes, with necklaces and earrings made of colorful plastic pillars and small pieces of bones placed on the hood. A long-haired man descended from the hillside, leading several saddleless horses, with two ten-year-old boys, red-faced and pony-tailed, following behind. At this scene, a little girl about three or four years old slipped away from her mother's side and ran towards the man. The man picked her up, gently threw her onto the bare back of the horse, she instinctively grabbed the horse's mane, sat steady, rode two steps, and chuckled. Seeing this, Qi Tian hesitated for a long time before finally mustering up the courage to approach one of the middle-aged women and strike up a conversation: "Hello, are you local Indians?" "No, Indian is an American word, we are NATIVE AMERICAN (native Americans)." She said with a smile, "My husband can take you horseback riding, a circle costs 25 dollars"...