“Can we get out of here?” she sighed.
“Where to?”
“Anywhere. Texas. New York. Florida. I don’t care. Just anywhere far away from Colorado.”
“Sure, we’ll leave in the morning.”
“No, let’s go now. Let’s just take off and drive as far as we can go,” she said excitedly.
“No destination in mind?”
She nodded. “Exactly, and when we want to see something, we’ll stop. It’ll be amazing.”
“I guess it’s technically tomorrow,” I said, glancing at my watch and noting the early hour.
Jumping off the bed, she was already pulling on her boots before I even got up. This burst of energy would only last her so long. After about an hour on the road, I knew she would conk out, but at least she would be happy.
We packed up the car and were on the road within ten minutes. As expected, her steam faded quickly, and I was left to drive alone for most of the early morning hours.
I was in desperate need of a bathroom break just about the time the sun was rising, which was when she woke up.
“Where are we?”
“Somewhere in New Mexico,” I yawned. “I need to stop for a break.”
“There’s a gas station up on the— Oh my God! Parker, turn right now!”
Startled by her sudden excitement, I yanked the truck to the right, the tires squealing as we rode two wheels, which was not something I liked to do in a truck.
“What the hell? What is it?”
“Keep driving! Just up ahead!”
I didn’t understand her excitement. There was nothing out of the ordinary around here. But when I got to the end of the road and pulled to a stop, I knew I was fucked.
“You’re not fucking serious.”
She grinned broadly at me. “It’s the answer to all our problems.”
“I can’t believewe did that,” I muttered for the tenth time today.
My beautiful wife was bouncing around the truck like we’d just bought her favorite dog. Excitement spilled from her pores as we approached the ranch.
Me? God, I wanted to turn around and bury my head in the sand. Maybe they’d think I had gone insane. Or maybe they’d just assumed I had done this because of the love of a woman.
Yeah, that made a lot more sense and made me look a helluva lot better than a man who just gave in because he was tired of looking.
“Just wait until everyone sees it. They’re never gonna believe it.”
“No shit, because no reasonable person would ever do what we just did,” I argued.
“Oh, you loved it, too. You know you did.”
That was a stretch, to say the least.
“I wouldn’t go that far. I’d say it was interesting. Not that I wanted to get it.”
“Ha! I saw the way you were ogling those wheels.”
