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    Next Time, Fly
    Next Time, Fly
    Next Time, Fly
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    Next Time, Fly

    By Jan Thorn

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    I drove many miles to meet him. I took an unfamiliar route and five miles off the highway I knew that that decision had been a mistake. Scenic routes are beautiful in the daylight, but this mountain road was dark, narrow, winding and worse of all desolate. I should have identified this scenario for the foreshadowing that it was and anticipated what I might be driving into.
    With the exception of my headlights there were no lights at all.
    And several hours later it was there -- like a phoenix rising from the ashes, or maybe just a motel around the bend in the road, that eerily serene mountain chalet should have been the perfect relief to a not-so-perfect evening.
    I drove many miles to get there.
    Brisk mountain air; clear, black sky; utter silence. Holed up for the night in a spacious suite with a daytime view...and an unwanted guest.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJan Thorn
    Release dateDec 27, 2015
    ISBN9780997145212
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      Next Time, Fly - Jan Thorn

      NEXT TIME, FLY

      by J. THORN

      Copyright 2013 Janice Thorn

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      Table of Contents

      THE DRIVE UP

      THE ROOM

      THE NEXT MORNING

      THE LAST LEG

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      THE DRIVE UP.

      I drove many miles to meet him. Overnight travel is a fairly large part of my job. Some people schedule designate ‘travel’ days to cover their territories, but not me. I tend to integrate my travel around my appointment itinerary and vice versa. The ferry carried me across the sound after a full day’s work. I drove two hundred miles from there. Straight through as planned. I never really consider the mileage I put on myself and my truck during the day which sometimes bites me in the butt toward the end of the day but nothing that a cup of joe can’t erase. The sun had set while we were crossing the sound. I got the front spot on the ferry, water view - prime real estate. It was a beautiful sunset and an easy evening – despite a busy day working the phones, setting up deals. Traffic was light and flowing notwithstanding the time of day; most people were rushing home; me, I was driving from home, just starting out, in fact.

      I chose a different route than I usually travel. My best friend Anne strongly advised against it, it’s back country roads – it will take forever. I wouldn’t go that way! But, this was before personal GPS, and I insisted that my Mapquest printout would not steer me wrong. And, you should have left earlier, she warned as I clicked my seatbelt and pulled off the ferry. I couldn’t help thinking how much she

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