Otherwise, they drove without talking, music from the satellite radio doing its best to fill up the silence. Clearly, when Brandon restored this car, he made sure to put some modern conveniences in it, although Levi would have preferred something a little more soothing than the alternative rock station Hayley’s brother had chosen. Still, Levi knew he could tune most of it out if he concentrated on the landscape passing by, on the dry, dusty desert, which began to be painted in hues of gold and orange as they continued west and the sun sank ever lower in the sky.
They stopped in Quartzsite for gas, and to eat the sandwiches Brandon had bought for them, and use the restrooms at the gas station. After that, it was back on the road, and on into California’s desert, which seemed even more barr
