Summer Ride by Susan Laine

Author:Susan Laine [Laine, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-64080-455-5
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2018-03-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

“NOW TAKE a left on Door Creek Road,” Toby instructed Jimmy, who was driving. “Lake Kegonsa State Park should be at the end of the road, on the right.”

As Jimmy found a place to park, he asked, “Is there, like, a parking fee or something?”

“Yeah, an admission ticket. For one day, it’s $11, since we have out-of-state plates.”

“Okay, I think we can afford that.” Jimmy reversed into the available spot. “Whew. Thank God I don’t have to parallel park. Hate that in Boston. Hate it everywhere.”

Toby laughed. “C’mon, comedian.”

Twenty minutes later they’d purchased their ticket, put it on the inside of the windshield, and found a relatively isolated spot on the otherwise populous beach, close to the tree line. Jimmy and Toby both had changed into shorts and T-shirts. The sandy beach was hot and sunny, without a cloud in the sky. The glacial freshwater lake, spanning wide and blue, lapped gently at the shore. Lush and thick woodlands spread around them like an impenetrable wall of green hues, expanding along the edge of the entire body of water.

Toby spread a picnic blanket on the sand and plopped down, immediately lying there with hands behind his head. He sighed happily. “Ah, now this is beginning to feel like summer.”

Jimmy had to agree. “When we were young, like teens and stuff, we took summer holidays for granted. Now most adults, me for example, don’t have the time or the money to spend vacations on the beach, if anywhere at all. I miss those days.”

“Yes, well, let’s enjoy this while we can,” Toby remarked, closing his eyes and lying in the sun like he was born to sunbathe.

Chuckling, Jimmy leaned back on his elbows, straightened and crossed his legs in front of him, and watched the way of the world. Groups of kids and adults paraded along the waterline in their bathing suits. Some adults played volleyball with a net; a few kids kicked a ball around. The smell of grilled food floated in the air. Bottles clinked. Gulls shrieked in the sky and lazily glided above the people milling about. Music could be heard from various radios but none awfully loud.

“How many states have we gone through already?” Jimmy mused rhetorically. He’d not checked his car’s or his iPhone’s GPS.

“More than half the states along I-90, as a matter of fact,” Toby retorted absentmindedly. “We started out in Massachusetts. Since then we’ve been through New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and now we’re in Wisconsin. That’s seven states out of thirteen spanning I-90.”

Jimmy blew out a breath. “Jesus. That’s a lot of states. How the hell did we get through them all so goddamn fast?”

Toby chuckled. “Stop cussing. As for our day trips, on that first day from Boston to Erie you drove, maybe, nine hours or so? And yesterday about the same from Erie to Stoughton, so like… eighteen hours? Yeah, I’d say we’ve made pretty good time. I checked the GPS, and all in all we’ve gone well over a thousand miles.

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