The Road: Up the River E-Book

James Gerard

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Abenteuer, Thriller, Horror
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Jerry, just having satisfied his curiosity by traveling down that road that led, to his surprise, the Yukon River, now has another itch to scratch: what is up the river?

Still captivated by the river's raw beauty, Jerry just has to find out. While the Fall season is still providing the river with light and warmth, Jerry decides a camping trip is in order.

With a couple of days off from his duties at the Air Force station, Jerry decides to find out what wonderful surprises would be awaiting his arrival.

And what exactly does he find? Well the answer to that lies beyond The Road and Up the River.

Leseprobe

James Gerard

The Road: Up the River

Dedicate to us that want to escape the madness of the civilized no matter what the so-called dangers of doing so.BookRix GmbH & Co. KG81371 Munich

Beyond the Road

A couple of weeks had passed since Jerry’s journey through the mysterious road.  Mesmerized by the road’s idyllic setting, the thoughts ran in circles.  The mind was preoccupied with the discovery of the raw wilderness untouched by the hand of man.  The scene was a spectacle never witnessed before in his young life.   Longing to know much more about the spot and intrigued about what lay beyond the isolated setting, the idea of a further adventure was relentless.  While the season allowed, he sensed that the river was calling to him with a sweet and harmonic invitation reaching his very soul.  Like a river nymph, the voice whispered to come to her just one more time to forever become one with the tantalizing beauty.  Jerry made up his mind then and there.  A camping trip along her banks was the only way to satisfy the unquenchable desire to visit the beautiful scene one more time.

Having grown up in a coastal town just off the Pacific Ocean, Jerry was no stranger to water.  He was more than familiar with the seashore and how it endlessly stretched beyond earthly vision.  Unlike his newfound beauty, the coast of old was much more expansive and abounded with wide beaches covered with beds of graying white sand.  In the summertime, the memory of warming up quickly after coming out of the cool ocean waves was soothing.  Feet sank underneath the sand’s heavenly warmth.  The body quickly warmed too as the sun bathed it with waves of heat.  The experience was a cherished nugget in the mind.

And unlike his newfound beauty, the beach offered endless stretches of soft sand where one could run miles and miles.  Jerry smiled while thinking of the juvenile game of dodging the gentle sheets of water reaching as far onto the beach as possible before retreating meekly back into the ocean depths.   Awe inspiring thoughts popped in the mind as the vision of rolling waves moved peacefully towards the shore. Then, in a matter of seconds the seemingly peaceful waves would crest, curl, then crash thunderously into the shallow water.  Their mixture of spray and foam and sand and turbulent water was a spectacle of power.  But as far as the river goes, in comparison to the wide expanse of the ocean, the Yukon presented an equal phenomenon not in size but the impact on the heart.

As far as Jerry knew and remembered there was only one river where he grew up.   But with memories reaching back in time, that river was rather pathetic.  He knew its headwaters were somewhere in the mountains miles and miles away and the water made its way down to the shore through etched out channels at the base of foothills and through valleys formed long ago.  He figured at one time the river may have been a formidable sight, but reasoned the hand of man had tamed it to the point where it became a mere trickle of its former self.  Now, with the Yukon capturing and holding captive his heart, the river back home was like a drip of water in a bucket compared to the sheer volume of the mighty Yukon.

Jerry’s mind was made up.  No longer could the yearning be ignored.  The only problem was he had never been on a camping trip outside the one time during his year as a Cub Scout.  How to go about the camping trip raised a lot of questions.  Nevertheless, common sense was tapped in to and he looked around his room.