INTERSTATE 95 RUNS out of Las Vegas, reaching the same elevation as Nellis Air Force Base and the Nevada Test Site and Creech Air Force Base, set up in reaction to Pearl Harbor and used today by combat-ready airmen flying MQ-1B Predators and MQ-9 Reaper aircraft. Here under desert skies air-power innovation took place for the Korean War; here research and special weapons and the famous Thunderbirds had made a home; here there had been staging bases for the delivery of nuclear weapons to the Soviet Union for joint verification tests; here was the home of remotely piloted aircraft being used in Afghanistan and Iraq.
And here a man dressed as a bird stood on the highway, hitching.
He held out a cardboard sign: THE SLEIGH BROKE.
A snazzy pink Ford Thunderbird stopped on the opposite side of
