Next Time, Fly

I drove many miles to meet him. I took an unfamiliar route and five miles off the highway I knew that that decision had been a mistake. Scenic routes are beautiful in the daylight, but this mountain road was dark, narrow, winding and worse of all desolate. I should have identified this scenario for the foreshadowing that it was and anticipated what I might be driving into.
With the exception of my headlights there were no lights at all.
And several hours later it was there -- like a phoenix r...