Ch.34 (cont.)
I stopped
at the entrance to the RV Park and told them I was leaving and then headed down
the road to the interstate looking to see if I saw Ann and Lee anywhere along
the road. They hid themselves well. I climbed on the interstate after fueling
up and headed for Crescent City, California. I enjoyed driving along by myself
and would look occasionally in the rear view mirror for another camper or
perhaps Ann and Lee , and I even caught myself looking for Leann on her motorcycle but surprisingly it was
just me and a bunch of motorists all heading in the same direction.
I had traveled for a couple of hours and
then my cell phone rang. The Road Warrior answered it as I had my Bluetooth settings
finally right, and it was Ann . Her voice
came over the radio system perfectly clear and she says.
“Hi Guy,
how are you moving along there?”
I said. “Great Ann find anyone heading out
after me.”
Ann says. “No we sat here a couple of hours
and still none of the vehicles that we thought were the ones, left the RV park.”
I asked. “Do you want me to stop or what is
it you want to do.”
Ann said. “Lee and I are going to escape in
the Escape.”
I said. “What?” incredulously.
She said. “We are going to escape, we are
going to drive closer to the coast and with all my grubby money we are going to
escape. Give them two paths to follow. You head for Crescent City and we will
head for a place where Lee and I can overlook the Pacific and spend the night
in a hotel with full service. Maybe lounge in the pool and we will catch up
with you in say maybe 2-3 weeks around Labor Day weekend in Sequoia National park.”
I hesitantly said, “OK sounds like a plan.”
I said trying to understand all she was telling me. “So you want me to hang out
with Road Warrior and eventually make it to Sequoia National park around Labor Day.
Anything else?”
Ann says ‘Plenty else.’ over the speakers as
she went on talking. She says. “Guy you are Lee and my self’s most trusted
friend and I said I was donating more than half my fortune to a good cause. You
are the good cause. I have deposited 200 million in accounts in your name and
have contacted my old secretary back home to help you start buying up farm land
to preserve it. Look around in the papers and on the internet and find the best
bargains across the country as you are driving. Buy to your heart’s content. If you run out of
money then I have another 100 million you can go through. It will leave me with
roughly 36 million but I am sure I can get by on that. So now Guy your mission
if you accept it is to get me the most bang for my buck. Find me some property.
I want all the mineral rights and the land must sustain agriculture and be able
to produce crops or livestock. Will leave it up to you as to the details, and will
let you go from there.”
I about drove off the road on that one ,
instead I headed for an off ramp and pulled over on to the shoulder , and said to Ann “Did I here you
right you are giving me 200 million dollars to just go buy land , and I am supposed to meet you in Sequoia
around Labor Day.”
Ann says. “Sounds about right Guy. We will be only be a phone call away if you need me for anything.
Just think Lee and myself need to get away. We are stopping at Wal-Mart and buying us some
clothes and so we won’t need much for a few days then we will contact you after
we have this out of our system. You have come this far why don’t you just head
on down to Sequoia and just camp out there in the tall trees and wait for us. In
the meantime maybe you can figure out who is following us. The detective is
still working on it, and it seems that Dealing Dan may be the culprit but we
still don’t know if it is him for sure or he is acting under someone else. The detective
suggested that you place that GPS locating unit on another vehicle and send it
somewhere else. Hopefully they will spend some time looking for it .”
I asked. “Can Lee hear me?”
Ann said. “Sure we are on speakerphone go ahead. He has
been listening to everything said.”
I said. “Lee you are one lucky son of a whatever. Congrats
on getting away. Hope you ate your Wheaties
and a couple Viagra’s sounds like someone has the hots for you. You lucky fool.
You won’t be worth anything next time I see you.”
Lee says. “ Ohhh bring it on. Couldn’t have
it any better. Hope you like your new job.
I said “Don’t know yet, would have been
nice to have some advance warning besides I am already retired and didn’t need
a job but this one sounds like it is right down my alley. Spending someone else’s
money is always nice. It’s a good thing. You guys are suffering from
spontaneous combustion that always happens when you are canned up with an old
fart like me.”
Ann says, “Guy, we could have come without
you and I could have drove but we wanted you to come . The accident and Lee’s leg
being injured gave us a perfect excuse to get you this far. Now you have 200
million in your accounts, and oh yes by the way when you had your debit card
stolen and I replaced it, it gave me full access to your accounts. The laptop
has a file with all your information you need. But the passwords are on a USB
stick I left in the computer for you to use. Take it with you everywhere. Also my
secretary is monitoring the money I made available to you as she has access to
it also. So use what you need to do what I want and by no means do I expect you
to live cheaply so I put a million in your own bank account for your expenses. So
get started when you can Guy and think about how you are going to qualify the
land you are buying. The purpose is to preserve farm land for later use say
fifty years down the road. This will halt urbanization of our farmlands and make
people become more self-conscious about land utilization earlier, as well
provide much needed resources to a later generation. Just like paying it
forward. How you pick which land to buy and where is entirely up to you. We
have full trust in your selection.”
“Mainly
you are looking for farmland that will someday be eaten up with urbanization
and is capable of sustaining agricultural growth. And you will meet me in Sequoia
around Labor Day at the big trees. Sounds good. Anything else?” I asked
“Let’s not be hasty and just buy anything
but instead take time to plan it all out. Head for the big trees and we will see
you later, my secretary will call you. Later Guy it’s time to escape.”
I said.
“Later Ann be careful you and Lee, and I will see you soon.” and with that the
line hung up and the radio returned automatically in the Road Warrior.
Wow
I thought to myself, a big old Road Warrior and 200 Mil and somewhere to go. What
have I got myself into? I just needed some time to digest all of this. So I eased
the Road Warrior on to the off ramp and crossed at the light at the intersection
at the bottom of the ramp and climbed back on the interstate and was soon
driving towards Crescent City alone and lot better well off than before.
I drove along and thought of my immediate
needs as I didn’t need much but still once I was in an RV park it would be hard
to get anything I needed unless I unhooked the utilities and drove the Road Warrior
to get it. It sure would be nice to have a vehicle to get around in since they stole
off in the Escape. Maybe I will look online once I get to Crescent City. Would like
to find a mint old CJ5 or CJ7 jeep, jacked up four wheel drive with a small V-8
in it to tool around in. Yeah might need it to check out some land. Having the
four wheel drive will allow me to get all over the land and make sure there are
no dumps or anything like that, and this can be very important when considering
land. Right now I just needed some more food so I will stop when I can before
heading to the RV Park. Then I can figure out what I am doing. I just drove
along as my thoughts filled my mind with things I needed to do. It wasn’t long till
all thoughts of Leann and the trouble with the break-ins were left behind.
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