This turned into another eerie soul-journey of sorts, a marathon of pained and exhausted endurance. Like with Jeri before he dozed despite the racket of the bike and the regular bumps. Yet he never sank beyond awareness of the wonderful woman he was bound to, or the pain that refused to go away or the necessity to keep the vehicle balanced. With Jeri and Melanie purring alongside on their larger hog he groaned and shivered in the constant wind and half-dreamed memories and fantasies that somehow kept him going the rest of the night.
Once they were out of the mountains and heading due east they were chasing the sunrise. With no helmets they were just asking for hassles with the cops, so they made the best time possible while the roads were mostly deserted.
Even in the pearly pre-dawn th
