First Time & other stories [NOOK Book]

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Overview

Frank is on the road, hitting all the high spots (or the low spots, depending on your point of view). These short stories find him at a peeler bar off the 15 in Montana; encountering a hitch-hiker off the 10 in New Mexico; being sweet-talked by his landlady; romancing a truck-driving sweetheart in a sleeper at a California truck stop; flirting with a waitress in a restaurant in the high desert.

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Overview

Frank is on the road, hitting all the high spots (or the low spots, depending on your point of view). These short stories find him at a peeler bar off the 15 in Montana; encountering a hitch-hiker off the 10 in New Mexico; being sweet-talked by his landlady; romancing a truck-driving sweetheart in a sleeper at a California truck stop; flirting with a waitress in a restaurant in the high desert.

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Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940011193941
  • Publisher: P X Duke
  • Publication date: 1/16/2011
  • Sold by: Smashwords
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 215,113
  • File size: 144 KB

Meet the Author

Aviator. Motorcycle rider. Vagabond. Drifter. Trouble-maker. Jack of all trades and master of none. I've been riding and writing about the places I've been and the people I've seen for a few years now. Some of my writing is factual; some of it isn't. I'll leave it up to you to decide for yourself which lies are the truth.


I disappeared for six years. For most of that time I was in the high desert and the Baja. How did that happen, you might ask? Well...


I was fed up with my job, so I did what any sane person would do--I quit. I got rid of most of what I owned, sold my house, climbed aboard my motorcycle and headed south to sunshine, blue sky and adventure. When I finally stopped, I was in Mexico. When I came to, I was sporting a full beard. Don't ask how long I was there. I have no idea.


During one of my forays north into the high desert of southern California, I was offered a part-time job at an old-school bike shop. I took it. My jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none life experience allowed me to parlay that job into full time employment putting on motorcycle runs down the Baja and into mainland Mexico. I did computer networking and security, and got involved in advertising.


That job paid the bills for six years. While I was there, I packed in more adventure than any sane person could want or need. I've picked up and delivered motorcycles throughout the El Lay basin, planned and led bike runs up and down the length of California, glad-handed and schmoozed high-rolling customers and advised others when it was time to leave the shop.


I’ve ridden over a lot of North America at one time or another from Canada to Mexico, and from Atlantic to Pacific. By far my favorite ride is up and down the length of the Baja Peninsula, where the people are friendly, the sun always shines and it’s warm in the winter.


Of everything that I have experienced in my all-too-brief life, Africa is perhaps the greatest enigma: a beautiful continent, rich in people, nature and resources, yet poor in all of those things too.


Yes, I know. There are some missing years in there. But what the hell, a little mystery is good for the soul, wouldn’t you say?

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 21, 2012

    Horndog

    Repetitive. The author writes the same basic scenario over and over and over, not just in this collection of shorts but in every other thing he's written. I don't know how much is fiction or fact...but, the guy in all these stories is apparently a sex magnet that no woman can resist...yeah, riiiight.

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  • Posted May 30, 2011

    Confusing

    This book seems to have no point. I kept reading to see what happened and was very disapointed. Maybe if this was expanded and had more detail it may have potential

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