He drew the coyote’s lope track, with the one hind foot showing behind the other three feet and the characteristic C shape.
They climbed the next dune. There were lines down its wall of sand, long lines and dots on either side of the lines: a lizard. A thick herringbone track that looked like a tire tread ran up the side of the dune beside the lizard: a desert sand beetle.
When Vivienne Pink and Johnny Coma arrived at their dune, they used the far mountains off to the east as their guide. Vivienne recognized the notch between two of them. Their dune looked directly across to where the sun would rise between 07:05 and 07:10. They had fifteen minutes. They climbed up their dune, a nice thirty-footer. Vivienne rubbed out the ripples at the top of their dune, and the wind put the ripples rig
