(photo courtesy of Gibson performance)
Note to self: buy a cell phone.
Here in the desert, on a "road" full of dips and covered in rocks as big as your fist, the decidedly "on-road" vehicle I'm driving—a Mercury Tracer—could easily bounce and break, and nobody would ever find me. The nearest town, Lucerne Valley, is small enough and out-of-the-way enough that it doesn't even merit a McDonalds. Hell, most of the houses there look to be having moving-out sales. But we're past even
