Instantly we were out in the desert and there wasn’t light or a car for fifty miles across the flats.
And just the dawn was coming over the Gulf of Mexico and we began see the ghostly shapes of yucca cactus and organpipe on all sides. " What a wild country! " I yelped. Dean and I were completely awake. In Laredo we’d been half dead. Stan, who’d been to foreign countries before, just calmly slept in back seat. Dean and I had the whole of Mexico before us.
" Now, Sal, we’re leaving everything behind us and entering a new and unknown phase of things.
All the years and troubles! and kicks - and now this! so that we can safely think of nothing else and just go on ahead with our faces stuck out like this you see, and understand the world as, really and genuinely speaking, other Americans hav
