TOUR

[lumberjim]

Prescott was a neat little town. You’ve seen it. I was playing hackey sack in the town square with a few local college students (Prescott University was the reason the town existed, I think) and I commented that the clock and the town hall looked somehow familiar. “Did you see ‘Back to the Future’,” someone asked. I looked around slowly. There’s the movie theatre. And there’s the diner. This is the clock they ran the big wire to. No shit.

We still had a few days to kill. The plan now was that Heather and Jeremiah were going to Tucson Arizona to meet up with some people they had met at “wolf something commune” and go on a trip to Guatemala. So they would be parting company with us when we left Prescott. Tony and Rachel were going up to Tahoe to visit some friends and meet the people that would be adopting Rachel’s baby. We were planning on going slowly up to Oakland by way of some Major landmarks we wanted to visit like Yosemite, and Sequoia Nat’l Forest. This, however, like so many things, changed.

Shelby and Heather had reached a boiling point with Gina, and had concocted a viable “plan B”. It was pretty harsh. We would leave Gina at this point while she had Paul’s support, and go with Heather and Jeremiah in the Chevette to Tucson, where we would assume possession of their car after they left for Guatemala. Tony and Rachel had already left. Breaking this news to Gina was one of the hardest things I can remember doing. I felt like a heel. I have understated some of the strife and tension that we lived with because of her vanity and instability, and our leaving her was mainly her fault, but I did feel like I was shirking a responsibility to make sure she was safe. I was forced to choose between her and Shelby, though, as Shelby had borne all she could and was going with Heather, with or with out me. There really was no choice. So we left here there. Crying.