Beyond the Road

A couple of weeks had passed since Jerry’s journey through the mysterious road.  Mesmerized by the road’s idyllic setting, the thoughts ran in circles.  The mind was preoccupied with the discovery of the raw wilderness untouched by the hand of man.  The scene was a spectacle never witnessed before in his young life.   Longing to know much more about the spot and intrigued about what lay beyond the isolated setting, the idea of a further adventure was relentless.  While the season allowed, he sensed that the river was calling to him with a sweet and harmonic invitation reaching his very soul.  Like a river nymph, the voice whispered to come to her just one more time to forever become one with the tantalizing beauty.  Jerry made up his mind then and there.  A camping trip along her banks was the only way to satisfy the unquenchable desire to visit the beautiful scene one more time.

Having grown up in a coastal town just off the Pacific Ocean, Jerry was no stranger to water.  He was more than familiar with the seashore and how it endlessly stretched beyond earthly vision.  Unlike his newfound beauty, the coast of old was much more expansive and abounded with wide beaches covered with beds of graying white sand.  In the summertime, the memory of warming up quickly after coming out of the cool ocean waves was soothing.  Feet sank underneath the sand’s heavenly warmth.  The body quickly warmed too as the sun bathed it with waves of heat.  The experience was a cherished nugget in the mind.

And unlike his newfound beauty, the beach offered endless stretches of soft sand where one could run miles and miles.  Jerry smiled while thinking of the juvenile game of dodging the gentle sheets of water reaching as far onto the beach as possible before retreating meekly back into the ocean depths.   Awe inspiring thoughts popped in the mind as the vision of rolling waves moved peacefully towards the shore. Then, in a matter of seconds the seemingly peaceful waves would crest, curl,

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Verlag: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG

Texte: James Gerard Burch
Bildmaterialien: Right to use purchased from Tamas Zsebok-Fotolia.com
Lektorat: James Gerard Burch
Tag der Veröffentlichung: 10.09.2014
ISBN: 978-3-7368-3835-2

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