I was relieved that he was coming home; spending that long with the radiation still leaking could not be good on the body no matter what the so-called... experts said. I knew that Mom and Dad were excited to have all the family near them again.At 11 Marcy and I went back over to the office with everyone else going to bed. Tonight was the night I slept with Marcy. Instead of waiting alone she was going to spend time with me in my office waiting for the call from Charlie. To our surprise there were. I don’t know how that came up. Nick laughed at that too. Said he always knew you were a back door man.”Tracy said all of this as though she were talking about what her mother liked to eat for lunch, but Mel had to steady himself, that Led Zeppelin tune growing louder in his head, the road blurring slightly. He took a breath, looked over, and trying hard not to sound too worried or angry asked, “No, I take that as all pretty personal Tracy. What we do together is special, intimate, and while I. The journey. The adventure. The race to freedom. Emerging from the canyons to the mountain. I watched, mesmerized, as this creature of light and sand danced my story and then settled in my lap looking out over the desert.We camped at Navajo National Monument for nearly a week. It was amazing how little we said during that time.Of course, we had to stand on a corner in Winslow, Arizona. I actually let Angie drive the truck (without the trailer) down the street and open the door for me to climb. It took all of five minutes before one of the guys came down to let us know they wanted to go with us. They had mistakenly believed that their superior numbers would protect them. Our appearance and their quick capture had shaken their confidence severely.It took forty-five minutes for them to gather and load their belongings into their cars, and we were headed home. I was surprised that they still used their old, beat-up cars. We pulled up in front of the house and unloaded everything, then.