[This is a work of fiction. The story is an unadulterated and unabashed attempt to tickle male fantasies and perhaps some female fantasies as well. It is a fantasy and as such, the story may or may not conform entirely with reality. With historical exceptions, all other locations, events, and characters are entirely fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.]
Note: This is number eight in a series. Number One, Chicago, should be read first.
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The morning sun was only an hour old as I crossed the New Mexico/Arizona state line a short time before reaching Lupton, at 1,536 miles past Go, that beautiful clear desert morning. I had just short of three-hundred eighty-six miles to go to get to the California line near Topok/Needles. But my immediate destination was Holbrook, Arizona, and the famous Wigwam Motel. My '63 Vette, split window coupe (a fully optioned Z06 model) that I call Miss Swifty, was purring like a cat at 100 plus mph as I sped along the Mother Road on the seventy some odd miles to Holbrook. I was twenty-three, single, footloose and fancy free at the time.
If you've been following my sexcapades along the Mother Road, you know that back then, I had flaming, naturally red hair on my head and my full, but neatly trimmed bush, a pair of swinging thirty-eights, and the rest of a well proportioned and athletically fit body to complete my five foot four frame.
I knew from my pre-trip notes that the first section of Route 66 in eastern Arizona passes across the southeast edge of the Navajo Indian Reservation--or as the Navajo prefer to call it, the Navajo Nation. The Nation is a large area, larger than the state of West Virginia and contains some 260,000 residents. The most famous landmark of the Nation is Widow Rock approximately twenty miles north of 66 between the state line and Lupton.
Lupton itself, originally a railroad and cattle town, now exists on the tourist trade. Most of the exchange is in trading posts that feature Navajo-made arts, crafts, and souvenirs. Of course, there's a gas station or two. Route 66 continues on via Sanders and Chambers towards the city of Navajo at 1,567 miles past Go. Nearby are Navajo Springs where Arizona was established as a territory in 1863--just fifteen years after the U.S. had gained control of it as a result of the Mexican War.
It was in Navajo that I picked up another hitch hiker. I'd stopped for coffee again and a pee. The hitcher was in the little cafe having a cup as well. A cardboard sign near him was labeled, Flagstaff. When I exited the ladies room, I ambled over to his table under his obvious scrutiny.
"Do you mind if I join you? My name's Jen, what's yours?"
"By all means, join me. I'm called "Red" for obvious reasons, but my name is James."
"So, Red, have you ordered yet?"
"No, coffee's all I was gonna have."
"Sure you don't want something? It's my nickel."
"Well, if you're gonna twist my arm, I guess I'd not turn down ham and eggs with toast to go with my coffee."
"You a college boy?"
"Yeah, I'm hitchin' home after summer session. I'll be a senior in the fall. I gotta late summer job waitin' for me in Flagstaff. I'm just a poor college student, too poor to have my own car just yet."
"Well, Red, I think I'll have a sweet roll with my coffee. I already had my breakfast."
A waitress ambled over and we ordered. I told Red what I was doing on Route 66 and he asked some astute questions. The guy was no adonis, but he was reasonably good looking, definitely masculine, and apparently horny as he copped looks at my exposed cleavage whenever he thought I wasn't looking.
He finished his ham and eggs and we were drinking a last cup of coffee. Red had a dreamy look in his eyes and he wiggled around on his chair a bit more than what I thought normal. His left hand would disappear under the table off an on as along with his wiggling as though something was uncomfortable.
"Tell me something, Red. Do you have cooties, or are you trying to accommodate a boner?"
"Christ, nothing like being blunt about it, Jen."
"Why beat around the bush? You appear to like what you see, and my bet is you'd like to have some of it. Right?"
"Weeelll, damn it, as long's we're being blunt about it, yes."
"Ok then. You know I'm headed west, so I can give you your lift to Flagstaff for a price."
"I just told you, Jen, I'm a poor college student. I don't have enough money in my pocket right now to buy my own breakfast."
"It wasn't money I had in mind."
"Oh?"
Red's interest had definitely picked up.
"No. What I had in mind was a good roll in the hay in Flagstaff before we part company. A really good roll in the hay. You up to that."
"I'm up to it right now--that's what all the wiggling's about. You were right about that. But I can wait 'til Flagstaff."
"Good. I could use a little company on the road for a while. If you're a good boy, I might even let you drive part of the way."
When we got to Swifty, his eyes bugged out at what he might get to drive. I got behind the wheel to start out
"Jeeze, I never thought I'd be riding in a Vette. Gorgeous set of wheels, Jen."
"thanks, Red."