Finally Delightful Relief, After Their Day of Torturing Heat! Also a Wonderful Ending For Part I: The Turn Of The Weather Tells Us That Things Will Be Better, Especially Since the Narrator Has Got Some Confessions Off His Chest!
" The sun angles toward the cloud, which now has grown downward to touch the horizon above us, in which there are trees, pines, and a cold wind comes down with pine smells from the trees. The flowers in the meadow blow in the wind and the cycle leans a little and we are suddenly cool. .. I look at Chris and he is smiling. I am smiling too. .. Then the rain comes hard on the road with a gust of earth-smell from the dust that has waited for too long and the dust beside the road is pocked with the first raindrops. .. This is all so new. And we are so in need of it, a new rain. My clothes become wet, and goggles are spattered, and chills start and feel delicious. “
Sixteen miles East of Mile City, MT. Of course the rain has delightfully cooled off everything, but they have also come up 620ft in elevation. Even small elevation changes, also help in providing more cooling. New topic: The Narrator told us in the previous photos how he doesn't remember and how strange. He has similar loss of memory various other parts of the trip, and how unsettling this is. He is probably telling us this so we understand just how bad his condition is. And this probably is also true, but typically the Narrator usually has additional reasons to tell us things like this. This kind of un-certainty, helps to heighten the readers tension, thus creating additional awareness and involvement. Properties of a good novel! They keep wondering what is wrong with the Narrator and what's going to happen with all this strangeness.
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(Photo = Summer2006 0359 Rain at Baker MT ...... ZMM Page = 078 ...... WayPt = 095`|m|' 3000ft)