A BANG! Desperate, lifting hood, his giant orange Schooly stopped, half way down mountain, oiled poured out.
Oil, black on the ground from under the motor as Darby looked between his feet trying to see if he had just blown an oil line. Looking underneath, a hole through bottom of oil pan poured out till gone
His hitchhiker who had been with him on the wild run from Alabama to Seattle in 52 hours, thanks to some legal Yellow Jacket speeders from the counters, coffee, and the excitement of finally taking off on the trip to write his great American novel. Darby had been driving as fast as he could down steep mountains across the northern highways to dodge the …
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