CHAPTER 14

There Awaits

“We’re the real ‘wild hogs,’ ” they said in unison, huge smiles spreading across their faces, one of them flashing the peace sign just in time for me to snap a picture.

We had stopped at a small gas station in Bodega Bay overlooking the harbor, about an hour north of Sausalito on Pacific Coast Highway 1. The cool breezes from the water were a welcome contrast to the summer heat and humidity back home.

Raye and I were on our first real adventure of the empty-nest era. Just two months earlier, we had dropped off our second (and youngest) child at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis for the start of plebe summer and freshman year. Jackson had accepted an offer to play football for the Midshipmen. Raye and I were still pretty ...

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