Moving from California to God’s country to start a ranch was a game changer for the young family.
On this particular July Fourth, the couple who left Orange County for Wyoming five years ago will celebrate their newfound freedom in Star Valley, on land where they raise their own cattle.
Today, the Rhodes family will have fireworks, sing patriotic songs about America, celebrate their Founding Fathers and freedom, and not least of all they will have flags. Lots of flags.
They would fly them days in advance.
On July 1, mom Amy Rhodes, 38, her dad, Darcel Hulse, and her kids piled into a pickup with about a dozen flagpoles and star-spangled banners in the bed….