Wandering Highway: A Desperate Journey Home by Ike Warren

Author:Ike Warren
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781479121762
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2012-08-12T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13: Fires

Cycling through the maze of broken down and busted up cars was not as easy as Allan had anticipated. Often he had to dismount off the bike and carefully navigate through tangled heaps of wreckage and debris strewn across the roadway. The going was slow and precarious, especially once they entered what had been heavy traffic on I-30 near Garland. Their speedy arrival home on the bike was quickly becoming a fantasy.

The wreckage was too thick to navigate through so he drove the bike along the left hand median where he found that there were fewer cars in the way. As he picked up some speed along the little three foot wide lane a strong vibration began to rattle throughout the bike and he looked down and realized that he was driving on top of the rumble strip. The grooves had been cut into the highway by road crews to alert sleepy drivers that they were out of their lane and now the grooves felt like they were tearing the bicycle apart.

“The bike is vibrating too much!” Jennifer yelled from behind. It sounded like someone was slapping a hand against her back as she spoke causing her words to come out choppy.

Allan stopped the bike and walked alongside while pushing it through the big parking lot of stalled cars that lay in the middle of the highway.

Everywhere he looked there were new cars. In fact, other than the old Bel Air car from earlier in the day, he couldn’t remember seeing any cars that were any older than five or ten years old as he thought back on their journey out of Dallas. All the new cars surprised him, considering that the economy was supposed to have still been in the middle of a recession, yet there were new sports cars and new SUVs as far as the eye could see. There were new delivery vans and utility trucks all with fancy logos painted on the sides, even the big semi-trucks looked brand spanking new. He recognized Dodge Ram pickups like his own nearly everywhere with newer body styles that had come out just the year before. Allan hadn’t noticed the multitude of new cars on the highway before. He wondered how everyone could afford all the new vehicles and then he thought maybe the cars that he was noticing were just everyone’s good cars that they drove to maneuver around the busy highways of Dallas. Maybe they kept their less expensive and less reliable cars back home. He knew for certain that there always seemed to be more older model cars on the roads back home in Greenville compared to what he was seeing there on highway 635. The thought filled Allan with hope. Maybe there are more old cars out there like that Bel Air that survived the blast. Maybe just a little further ahead there are old cars like that being used as busses and we could hitch a ride all the way back to Greenville on one and we could be home before midnight.

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