Scott Swanson
Of The New Era
Gary Rishforth was resting in the warm sunshine last week, awaiting a lift to Bend.
Rishforth, 56, of Medford, is a month and a half into a horseback journey that he hopes will take him through all 48 contiguous states ? and, he hopes, Alaska.
“Not!” interjected his girlfriend Bonnie Brautigam, of Phoenix, who had traveled up to the Sweet Home area to visit him, when he mentioned the…