They drove on down the road in the old Chevy heading south through southern Nevada in the United States of America in the late spring. The sky is changing, said Alaska Black as she took in the scene. An execution is happening, Al said to her. Those vast spaces and immensely large landscapes seeped deeply into them. You act fast, Alaska said. So the day moves at a good clip. It humms right along. No, the minutes pass too slow, Al said. Sucking the air out of me. The simplest of tasks are taking forever to finish. The time did slip by though because the old road stretched out ahead of them. Thus the thing for them to do was to always keep moving slowly along making a sweet and steady progress. Still they struggled with this awful something, squirming in their seats as they sang along with songs playing on the CD player. It's hot here, she said. They were camped now. The auto parked. The tent pitched. It must be in the high nineties by now, Alaska said. That's nothing. Maybe not, but this dang wind sure is blowing. And then calming down for a bit before blowing wildly again and sometimes suddenly with much anger. That wind was always there always present always in attendence it seemed. And it was getting on Alaska's nerves, gusting against her body, infiltrating her bright spirit. This place makes one drink lots of water, she said. It also gets you feasting on the most delicious of dark red sweet juicy strawberries, he said. She is here now, Hank said. Alaska had been doing her good deeds upon Hank. Sending him her little nothings notings notes. She. She be. She be it. Alaska completely loves the romance of it all. She aint lovin nothin, Al said. But Alaska did spark a firestorm of feeling. The comfort of her simplicity and the large amount of land, the privacy of that life and this easy freedom around them surrounded them. You've finally lost all yer marbles, Al said. What little you had to begin with. No. A happy good fortune is paying us a visit. Hank provided exactly the sort of speed Alaska had sought. He the honey deposited in the bank account. Her wild mustang stallion horse of a man that she sat atop while riding the wild range. Hank is a special surprise. He's the physical vastness. The endless timeless stillness of a constant newness. Working the wide open free country of a land called America. It works. And works, Alaska said. Walks, said Hank. She was working on his walk. And walks and walks, he said. Works, she insisted. Now walking they be. And sings, she said. And songs, sang he. In the rain. And in the sun, Hank belted. Winging it, she said. Living. It up on the fly, Alaska said. Feeling the mo...jo. Yes. And dancing and doing The Tango on the beach in the sand in bare feet in the city of Los Angeles. In California. In the United States. Of America. Dancing the Tango. Dancing it and dancing it. Yes, he sang. Yes and yes again and more and always and today. Sing, she said. Sing and sing. You are singing. It be working. And waking and working and waking. And waking and waking and waking. Waking and waking and waking. Waking up. Waking up and coming to life and now suddenly instantly it be alive fully completely alive. Alive and thriving and going and working it and they doing it and doing it and now it doing it. And then it done. All done. Done deed. And done dead. Done and done and over and through and finished. Finished. Done working. Done. So then now to the playing and the having of the fun. And the fun and more fun. Good plain simple old fun. FUN. Yes, Fun. Fun fun fun in good old Moon Valley. Fun fun fun in great new Fun Valley. Working it and it working and working. Working and working. Playing, she said. Insisted he, working. And working and working on the dance and dancing the dance dancing this dance this beautiful dance of life. Dancing it and it dancing. Life dancing. Dancing you say? asked she. Watts that you say? Watts what? That is pretty tricky fancy footwork right there. You asked for it. I did? When? This morning. If you say so, he said. I say so. And who might you be to say such a thing. You seem to be slipping some here now in your discipline. Your clean tight rigorous demanding ruled and regulated discipline. That's because we have been disciplined to be free as well as disciplined to be clean. It was working then on them something good. And something fierce. And quite fun it was seeming. To be free, he continued. Disciplined to be. To be loose and open and on the fly and off the cuff and on the go flying in the moment by the seat of our pants walking the tightest of ropes now with no net underneath us to catch us here on the net. This here inter net thingy. She said, Boy O Boy we have gotten ourselves and this audience in it thick now yessiree babee. Yes you have. Yes yes yes, she said. Sweet old yes. Like sweet old Alabama. That's sweet home Alabama Miss Skynard. Home is about as old as old gets here on this here old open wild road dancing down it again. Once again. Now again. Happily again. It had done its good work for that day in the middle of the fall in the mountains in the northern parts of the country. It working. Working and working and working. Work, she said. She demanded. Demanded. Am busy playing, he said. Playing and playing and playing. So you be. Playing and playing, he said. And playing and playing. Un believable, she said. You best believe it. It is true. Just fine. Juuust fffine. Believe it and believe it and never leave it and so always have it. Do got it. Got it, she said. And it got me. Me schmee ski. Go skiing here in the snow you fine high flying sky spy. In your eye. In front of your face. Front and center. Center stage. Music to the ears, he said. Music and more music. The music of this amusing muse we seem to have met. Excuse me? The only excuse for you is having once been a recluse and now a fugitive on the loose. Say we lose this nonsense and get to the serious play. Playing and playing and going and going and playing. Working, she said. It working still. Working and wroking andw orking and working and working and working and working and working and working and working andw orking andw orking and working andw orking and working. Trabajando, ella dijo. Working, she said. Y trabajando. And working. Y trabajando y trabajando y working and working and working y working and working y working y working y working y trbajando y working and working y trabajando y trbajando y galloping and galloping and galloping and galloping and galloping and galloping and galloping and galloping and galloping and galloping and trotting and walking and now walking the horse and walking it and walking it and then they set in in the road briefly and then were walking again and walking and walking and walking going non-stop flying non-stop going continuously and steadily and surely and persistently and doggedly cruising and cruising and cruising in cruis control making tracks motoring and tooling and tooling and tooling and toollng on down the road flying low and tooling on down the line tooling on down south tooling and tooling y tooling and y tooling on down south in the sky flying on down south to South America to Venezuela y Ecaudor y Columbia y Peru y Brazil y Chile y Argentina and in Argentina Patagonia. Tooling and tooling and traveling and moving constantly and consistently every day moving and moving and moving. Moving. Just moving. Simply moving. MOving and moving y working y trabajando y working and working y working and working and dancing y baile y dancing y baile y dancing and dancing and dancing now dancing in Buenos Aires in Argentina dancing the Tango dancing it and dancing it and it moving them and moivng them and moving them and moving them moving them and their hearts. Their hearts moving and moving and movig and being moved by the music. Moved and moved and moved and moved and moved and moved and moved and changed and changed and charged up and up and up and up and up energized now from the movement from the dance from this Tango that they had been dancing and dancing from a long time. Dancing and dancing and dancing it working on them and working on them and orking on them an working y trabajando y trbajando and working and working and working y now ahora working on them working on them here aqui trabajando y trabajando y working and working and working andw orking sculpting them molding them creating them bringing them to life and alive and living and living and living and loving and loving and loving it all loving everything loving the world the big world loving it and loving it and loving it and loving it and it loving them and loving them ellos y loving them and loving ellos y loivng ellos y loving ellos loving her and loving him her and him them ellos loving and loving y loving and loving and loving and loving. Loving, she said. Working, said he. Loving. Working. Loving. Working. Loving and working. Working and loving, he said. Loving. Working. Loving. And loving and loving and loving and not leaving but rather sticking sticking it out staying with it through the thin staying and staying and sticking and sticking y sticking y sticking and sticking y sticking and sticking. Working. Sticking with it and with it and with it and with it good old it simple it yes it. It and it and it y it y it y it y it. Loving it and it loving us. And loving us and loving and y loving y loving y loving y loving y loving and loivng and loving. Working y working. Loving. Trabajando, el dijo. Loving and not leaving. Loving and staying. Loving y staying. And staying and staying and riding it out and riding it out. And taking the road wherever it led them wherever the story took them where the good and fine and pleasant action took them and took them and took them and took them and took them as they tooled on down the road as they flew on down the line flew on down south and then east and east and east y esat y east y esst y east yes east working their way east and east and east working and working and working and working and working and working and working working east from South America from the Americas to Africa and Africa and Africa and then Asia and Asia and Asia and then Australia and Australia mate y Australia mate and Australia y and Australia and Australi and Australia and Australia Perth on the west coast and then working their way overland east. Working and working and working and working. Working. And working and working their way and working their way and working their around the planet around the globe around the world around the Earth. Working and working and working and working and working and working and working and working y trabajando y trabjando working and working and working their way and working and working and working and working their way and working their way. Working and working working. Working. Always working. Now working. Now working. And working and working and walking and walking and walking and going ahead forward and just walking and walking and walking and walking. Wal;king east from Perth. Walking and walking and walking and walking east working their way easy going east headed east an deast and esaat and east headed and headed and now heading and heading and heading walking and walking and walking and walking and walking and walking and walking and walking and walking and walking and walking and walking and walking steady and non-stop walking and walking and walking and walking and walking and moivng and moivng and alking and dancing the tango as they were walking and walking and walking and walking and walking and walking and walking and walking and walking and walking and walking and walking. Working, she said. Said he, walking. Working and wrking and working and working andw orking andw orking. Waling. Working. Walking and walking and walking. Working. Walking. They lived. Working and working and working and working andw orking andw orking. Walking. They lived. They lived. They lived. They lived. They loved. The laughed. Working and working and working and working. They loved and loved and loved and loved it and loved it and loved and lived it were living it and living it and living it and loving it. And loivn git and loving it and loving it. Working and working, she said. And woorking and working and working and working and working and working andw orking andw orking. Working, he agreed. Then she said, walking. and walking and walking and walking and walking and walking and walking and walking and walking and walking andw alking and walking and occasionaly once in a while talking and talking and then singing and singing, she said. Signing up for the singing. And the singing and then singing and the dancing and then eating the drinking of water and of wine and of whiskey and sleeping and sleeping and dreaming and dreaming and seeing and feeling and feeling and touching and touching. Eventually dying, he said. Dying and dying and dying and lying through our teeth and lying and lying like Al lying and lying and lying. While lying in the grass, she said. Lying through our teeth while lying in the grass. Laying eggs in the grren grass that was lying down on its side. Eating eggs, she insisted. then she thought, And bacon and bacon and bacon. Eating and eating and eatinig. Bacon and egss. Bacon and then eggs. Eating and eating and eatiing and eating and eating and getting filled up and filled up and satisfied and satisfied and fill and fill and fill and filled up and full and full and not empty and empty and empty but rather instead full. And full and full and full and full juggling the bacon and the eggs and the milk. Juggling? he asked. Yes, she said. Juggling. And juggling and gulling and juggling. Just like juggling. Exactly like juggling. Jugling the three things. In the air juggling then. The bacon and the eggs and the milk. They loved and loved and loved and loved and loved. They loved it and loved it and loved it and were living it and living it and living it aa while they loved it adn loved it and loved it. They loved the galloping of the horses that was happening. The gallopign and the galloping and the galloping and the galllooping and th4e galloping and the galloping as they sat in the saddles as they sat bareback galloping and galloping and galloping like American Indians doing it bareback galloping and galloping and galloping and galloping and galooping and galloping and galloping the horses on a tightride strung between two buildings. Galloping and galloping and galloping. Galloping gleefully on the tightrope. Galloping and galloping and galloping and galloping and galloping and galloping and galloping and galloping and then now trotting and trotting and trotting and trotting and trotting them the horses trotting and trotting and trotting and trotting them and trotting them and trotting them and tortting them and trotting and then into walking gear and walking and walkaing and walking and then standing still setting them and setting them and setting them setting still and quiet and breathing and breathing and breathing and breathing and breathing and breathing and then starting out walking again and walking and walking. Working, she said. And working and working andw orking. It be working. And working and working and working andw orking. Walking, he thought. Working, she sang. Working and working and wno working and working and working. Wailing away, he though. Adios, she sand. Vaya con Dios...amigos. Buenos dias...Buenos tardes...Buenos noches. Buenos dias...buenos tardes...Buenos Aires. Aregentina...Peru Lima...Katalina. She sang it. Was singing it. Singing it now. Singing it and singing it and singing it and singing it and singing it and singing it and belting it out and letting her rip and rip and rip and go and letting her loose and loose and loose and loose and loose and loose and loose letting it fly and fly and fly and fly and fly in the sky and the sky and sky and the sky like a spy like a spy like spy a high flying spy in the sky in the blue blue sky. Flying and flying and flying and flying and flying nd wailing awy and belting it and lettin git loose and going for it and it moivng her and moving her and moving her. The lived and lived and lived and lived and lived and lived and lived and lived and lived and lived and lived and lived and lived and livied and lived and liveid and loved adn loved adn loved and loved and worked and worked andw orked and worked and worked andw orked and walked and walked and walked and walked and sang and sang and sang and sang and sang and then sung and sung and sung and they hung in the saddle in the saddle in the saddle in the saddle not a sad saddle but rather instead a happy one a happy saddle doing it in a happy saddle singing and singing and singing and songing and songing and songing and soaring and soaring and soaring and flying ang flying and flying high flying and high flying and high flying and high flying and flying high and flying high and flying high and then flying low and low and low and low and low and low and low and low and low and low and low and low and low and low and low and low and low and low with little or no dough no dough no dough no dough but still plenty of bread and bread and bread and bread breathless fromn all of the bread from all of it. Breathing, she thought. Breathing and breathing and breathing and breathing and inhaling it all and inhaling it and soaking it up and taking it in and taking in taking in as income and income and incoming and incoming and incoming as ammunition and amuunition and ammunitiona dna mmunition and ammunition as bulltes and bullets and bullets bullets flying all over the places bullets and bullets and bullets and bullets and bullets flying and bullets flying and flying and flying and flying and flying and flying and flying and flying and flying and flying and flying and flying and flying and flying and flying and flying and flyign and flying and flying and flying and flying and flying and flying and flying and flying and flying and flying and flying high and flying low always just flying and flying and flying and flying and flying in thge middle flying medium flying and flying and flying and flying and flying and flying and flying and flying just going ahead forwward and flying and flying and walking and flying and singing and dnacing the tango dancing in the air whiel flying in the airplace dancing it and dancing it and doing it doing it in the air and doing it and doing it and doing it and doing it. Doing it and doing it and doing it. Doing the dance in the air. Doing it in the weightless of space. Dancing and dancing and dancing and working and working and working. Working in space. Working up high. Working and working and working and working and working and working andw orking and working. Walking, he said. Walking in space. And walking and walking and walking. Space walking. Walking in Space. And walking on the Plenet. Walking on Planet call it Earth. Waling on Earth. Walking and walking and living and loving it and loving it and loving it and loving it and loving it andloving it and enjoying it and loving it absolutely just loving it and digging it and digging it and digging it and digging it and just really soaking it all up and taking it all iin and taking it all in and in and in and in and in and in as income taking it in as income and income and income and income and income and income and income. How come? she asked. Because, said he. Because and because and because and because. Because it is fun. Fun? Yes, fun. And fun and fun and fun and fun and fun. Fun with this sort of gun. Fun and games. Cowboys and indians. Indians and cowboys. Both riding horses. Fun and fun and fun and fun and fun. Fun in the sun. Fun and fun and fun and fun and fun and fun and fun and fun and fun and more fun. Fun and then more fun. Lots of fun. Load of it. Plenty of it. Plenty of it for everybody. Plenty of it to go around. Around and around and around like a merry-go-round. Around and around and around. Orbiting and orbiting and orbiting the planet. Orbiting and orbiting and orbiting and traveling and moving and flying and working and working andw orking and being seriouis and getting serious serious about the having of the fun even as things get serious themselves. Fun. Serious fun. Serious about the having of the fun. Serious and serious and serious and serious and serious and serious and serious. Plenty serious. Deadly serious. You cannot be serious. How can you be serious. You are just a bum. You are nobody. How can nobody be serious about the having of the fun? Just can. But how? she asked playing along playing this game with him that he loved so that tickled him pink. And red and orange and black and blue and green and everyother color. Easy. How easy? Easy easy. Just easy. Just take it easy. Just do it easy and make it easy and make it last. Just make it easy and then it will be easy and then it is easy. You can do it with your eyes closed it is that easy. It working. In June it working.