Re-energizer

The sky was gray and it was as dark as night even though it was nine o'clock in the morning, the wipers slapped against the windshield with a steady rhythmical movement.

A steady rain beat against the windshield as the car whisked steadily down the two-lane highway of what had once been the famed Route Sixty six; like many other things in life it's time had come and gone. . . The old two-lane highway was in disrepair, the new interstate highway had left it in almost a state of abandonment s...