him and then continued on down another side road. the other person was a young girl leading a scrawny, fly-bitten horse along the road we were driving on. we slowed and asked her if she was all right, she said yep and we continued on as the sun climbed into the southern sky and beat down on us with a fury.
two people in three hours!
i was feeling pretty damned helpless when i spotted a lake off to the south, about a quarter-mile from the road, the only color other than brown we had seen all morning. i suggested we sit by the waters and eat some lunch and stretch our 