19 March 2006
Driving Sonora
The narrow pot-holed shoulderless two lane of sun-bleached asphalt abruptly gave way to a smooth wide coal-black ribbon, lined in brilliant gold and snow white, pure as a virgin Nubian princess. It had the sleek elegance of a tarasco maiden at her quinceera, raised proud of her race and fearful of God. The surrounding brown hills seemed scorched as if a great blaze had passed through. Small enthusiastic tufts of dark green pushed up between blackened capillaries of creosote and ocochillo. His driving steady and gentle, it seemed to James from that distance that the shaved pubic hair of those charred and fuzzy ripe rolling ridges was just beginning its bristly reemergence.
Driving Sonora
The narrow pot-holed shoulderless two lane of sun-bleached asphalt abruptly gave way to a smooth wide coal-black ribbon, lined in brilliant gold and snow white, pure as a virgin Nubian princess. It had the sleek elegance of a tarasco maiden at her quinceera, raised proud of her race and fearful of God. The surrounding brown hills seemed scorched as if a great blaze had passed through. Small enthusiastic tufts of dark green pushed up between blackened capillaries of creosote and ocochillo. His driving steady and gentle, it seemed to James from that distance that the shaved pubic hair of those charred and fuzzy ripe rolling ridges was just beginning its bristly reemergence.