Story of Us
“The ride from Eagle Lake into town was short, but it took me on what was to be the first step of the longest journey of my life.
With my arms around his tree-trunk middle, I dared to press myself against his back, and then he wasn’t the only one who was lost. I was, too. I grew dizzy with his smell and with the feel of the wind in my face and the roar of the motor in my ears.
At that point, I didn’t know anything but his name, and that he rode a Harley, was in the Navy and had ocean-blue eyes. ...It’s funny that I could see a blue ocean in my mind’s eye, because the only saltwater I’d ever actually seen was the gray-brown Gulf of Mexico from the seawall of Galveston during wild-girl weekends from college.
Yet though I knew little about him, I understood something deep inside—this chance meeting was changing the course of my life.
I pointed the way to Alamo Drive and wondered if he was amused by the quirky names of things—the Halfway Baptist Church, Adam’s Ribs B-B-Q and the Celestial Café, the filling station with its hand-lettered sign, “We sell gas to anyone in a glass container.”MoreLess
With my arms around his tree-trunk middle, I dared to press myself against his back, and then he wasn’t the only one who was lost. I was, too. I grew dizzy with his smell and with the feel of the wind in my face and the roar of the motor in my ears.
At that point, I didn’t know anything but his name, and that he rode a Harley, was in the Navy and had ocean-blue eyes. ...It’s funny that I could see a blue ocean in my mind’s eye, because the only saltwater I’d ever actually seen was the gray-brown Gulf of Mexico from the seawall of Galveston during wild-girl weekends from college.
Yet though I knew little about him, I understood something deep inside—this chance meeting was changing the course of my life.
I pointed the way to Alamo Drive and wondered if he was amused by the quirky names of things—the Halfway Baptist Church, Adam’s Ribs B-B-Q and the Celestial Café, the filling station with its hand-lettered sign, “We sell gas to anyone in a glass container.”MoreLess
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