Serve and Protect by Douglas Varnell

Author:Douglas Varnell [Varnell, Douglas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-14T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

It was the weekend before Thanksgiving on Earth and Tala was not looking forward to spending her time without Brad while he headed to Southern California to be with his family. He had invited Tala to join him, but Brad coming to Verron to visit with her family was a lot different than a 16 year-old girl going to California to meet his. He wasn’t so sure his family could handle the age thing as well as Tala’s family had. Brad grew-up with a father who made his money the old fashioned way; he inherited it from his grandfather who had owned thousands of acres in Monterey, California. He had sold some, developed even more and passed a large portion on to his only living grandchild. The old man had outlived his three wives and children except Brad’s Father. His Dad didn’t care for the ocean front, and preferred to live on the 4000 acre tract of land he owned east of Monterey, in an area called Laguna Seca. Their home was on the Laguna Seca Golf Ranch and his father was the resident teaching golf pro at the club. Between his stock portfolio, real estate investments and profits from his construction company, they lived very nicely. Brad grew-up riding his mountain bike in nearby Jacks Peak Park or riding his motorcycle at track-days on Laguna Seca/Mazda Raceway. The rest of his time was spent at the Monterey Regional Airport flying his Cessna 172. He played some tennis, took karate, and loved to spend hours at the Laguna Seca Shooting Sports Association; he did not however enjoy golf. His father and mother golfed almost every day. He was not looking forward to the social life of the golf community. He made a point to have his Cessna and his CBR600RR track-day bike serviced before he got home for the holidays.

Tala and Brad had loaded up their mountain bikes into Brad’s 4x4 pick-up truck for one last outing before they parted for the holidays and headed for Red Rock Canyon National Park. They got an early start so they could cover the boring part of the ride across the desert while still dark. Arriving part way up Rocky Gap Road, they located a good place to park the truck and unloaded. It was a long hard ride along the tops of the mountain to Switchback Spring. Since Brad’s enhancement, the mountain bike rides had been a lot more fun. He knew Tala could outrun him up the steep grades, but she always let him lead, after-all, he had actually been on most of the trails in the area before, but not this one. Their goal was to reach Switchback as close to noon as possible and enjoy the scenery from the high peak over lunch, then make the run back down the mountain to the truck. By the time the day was through, it would be well into the night before they made it back to Area 51.

The trail was

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