Stan Loweman is ferrying me across the Mojave desert in his 2018 Porche Macan. We are moving fast. I take three Ambien. Confuse the reflectorization of freeway signs for trooper lights. Music plays. We pass an El Pollo Loco, which explodes, erupting into flames, turning the night sky to day. We are bound for something buried. Something I left behind.
From Cajon Pass we travel to the southwesternmost route through the California Mojave.
Barstow east to Needles and into western Arizona.
Hesperia and the Victor Valley, north to Mono Lake and Bodie.
Barstow west through the desert and up the southern Sierra Nevada to Tehachap.
Baker north to Death Valley Junction and Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.
What Loweman says when we reach State Route 190: "Let's turn back."
Me: I don't know what that is.
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