glimpse but familiar
I woke up at 5 in the morning, I have rented the bike, and we were going for a golden gate canyon state park and inside. I quickly packed my stuff and everything. "Please, you can sleep on the way, we will miss the sunrise." She was sleeping after freshen up. She woke up, her eyes were shut, she stretched her arms towards me, ugh, I picked her up on my back and got down the stairs, the hotel had no lifts, but we were on the first floor only.
I quickly placed her on back seat and started the engine, it was dark I quickly turned on GPS, and headed towards the mountain. We were there in 45 minutes, I was driving fast, the cold was severe. She was hugging my back and snoring, I could hear her snore in the middle of everything. I went up with the golden gate canyon road, the darkness was fading I raced the bike and we were near Centralia Mountain, she was sleeping as always, I picked her on my back and went running on the mountain, my calves were popping out. My legs were hurting but that's okay. We were on the position where we could see the sunrise. I placed her on a rock and sat near her. I shook her head, I was ready with the camera. She looked towards the light yellow sky, I took a picture. She yawned, I took another one. Now she was fully awake. She turned towards me.
"Why are you sweating in such a cold?" because I was running up on the mountain with 60 kg of weight on my shoulder.
"I am hot." She hit my head, and gave me a hug. I also embraced her. This was a good moment.
"You want to see one more beautiful thing?" I asked her.
"I am looking towards the most beautiful thing in the world." Wow, what a comment, on me. thanks. I fucking blushed, I mean, really. Come on. she gave me a hug again.
"Okay, so you want or not?" I asked her.
"I don't need to." Oh come on.
"Okay. Fine." I crossed my hands and sat there watching the sun. it was 7 in the morning.
"Okay, okay. Let's go." I sighed happily and stood up.
"Can you walk?"
"Yes." She offered me a hand, I helped her to stand. We walked down the mountain slowly. Now I had a better plan than just a sunrise. I rode on 119th road and in 40 minutes we were there.
"Oh, the river." She exclaimed. Yeah, it was boulder falls. Denver had one near it, other were in other parts of Colorado, I was planning to come from the western part when coming back from Alaska.
"Yeah." I parked the bike on the road. And went on the steps, there were steps there. We slowly walked in, after some time, I took out my camera. She posed for some photos and some were candid, touching the water and laughing towards the bird chirping, she was very happy. we followed the river I mean small river, until the most beautiful part, it was like, clouds were in the river, it was really beautiful.
"Is this a horizon?" she asked me. "The clouds are touching the land." I smiled, but her logic was true.
"We cannot see the horizon, Emily. We just can feel it, we just can see it from distance."
"Oh, but this is really beautiful."
"Yeah, it is." I took her photos, she wanted to go inside, and I strictly denied it.
"I wish it could be snow here." She said. My heart sank, but I got more determined, I am going to show her a snow mountains and we are going to live there for as much as she wants.
"We will see the snow, but now I am very hungry, what about you?" she stretched her arms towards me. Yeah, yeah. She was on my back all the way towards my motorcycle.
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We saw some parks and the gardens in Denver, and we headed towards our route. We have started the journey at 7 in the morning and we were at Cheyenee, the road was beautiful. There was no point spending too much time in there, we quickly did some breakfast and headed towards Casper, casper is also a good place.
"This place is beautiful." She exclaimed. We were in chugwater, yeah, it was really beautiful, the road was around the town, we could see the creeks and the small river, the town was surrounded by nature. I sighed, the air was so pure.
"Yeah, it is. You want to stay for some time?" I asked her, she was in command of the tour, I was just a driver.
"What do you think?" she asked.
"Whatever you want."
"Okay." She was thinking. I parked my motorcycle near the road, and got out. I breathed heavy, the air was so nice. I turned back towards Emily, she was thinking. I picked her up and put on my back. "What are you doing?" she was frustrated.
"You think too much, whenever you get a chance to enjoy the nature, never think about it." I crossed the road, there was a train route in between, I crossed it and went near the water.
"There is no shape of it." Yeah, the river was in very strange and odd shape. I gave her a nod and placed her down on one rock. I went in and washed my face with the water.
"There is no shape of nature, that is why it's called nature, you just have to feel it's beauty." I told her. She seemed confused. I went near her and threw the water on her face.
"You are idiot."
"I know that." I sat on one rock near her and stretched my arm around her. I dragged her near me, kissed her on her left cheek. We were just staring towards the water, just sitting there, doing nothing, but I could feel her warmth.
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From chugwater the road was very beautiful, till wheatland. We were eating our salad and some veg dish in wheatland.
"Why the farms here are round in shape?" she asked me. I looked towards them, yeah, they were round, the plot was square but the main farmland was round.
"I don't know." I turned towards one of the stranger who was also eating alone. "Sir, why the farms here are round in shape?" I asked him. He turned, he was really old man.
"Oh, it's called circle irrigation." He paused. For breath. "It uses less people to perform agriculture, and this town is small, so we use that."
We were satisfied by the answer, it was perfect. "Oh, thanks."
"You people are travelling somewhere?" he asked in cold voice.
"Yes, towards the snow mountains." Emily said quickly. He was confused.
"To Alaska." I cleared his doubt.
"Oh, nice." He turned and continued eating.
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The road from wheatland was more beautiful than the earlier. Emily was not sleeping, she was just observing the fields, and watching animals, nah, not so much, they were so rare, 1-2 in an hour. I rode slowly, you know she could observe little things, that's why.
After some time, she was shaking my shoulder.
"What happened?" I was looking straight, the traffic was good, not too much but good.
"There is a lake in there. Can we stop here, please." Of course. We were on the 26th highway, and we were far ahead of the u turn. I quickly took out my GPS and scrolled ahead, something should be there. And wow! I started the engine and went straight. "Please, please. I want to stop here." She was shaking my shoulder.
"Wait a minute." I smiled. And stopped after some distance, her head was on my left shoulder, I turned her head towards our right.
"Whoa! Can we stop, please?"
"Yes. Let me park the bike." I slide my bike down the road and parked there. Ooh, there were two obstacles in between us, train track and a highway. Well we completed it and went near the Glendo reservoir. It was 3 in the afternoon. On our opposite side, there were small uplands. This was beautiful. After watching in the water, the police siren sound was coming from somewhere. I turned and the police were near our bike. They were searching for bomb or drugs or something more than that. I laughed. I picked Emily on my back and went running towards my bike.
"Officer, can I talk to for a minute?" I placed Emily down on the bike. He was refusing to talk but I dragged him away that Emily cannot hear.
"We cannot tolerate this things." Officer shouted towards me.
"I know." I said in calm voice, I was trying not laugh.
"What you mean you know?"
"I am sorry officer, the scene was nice so we just went near it."
"It's against the rules."
"I am sorry, what should we do?"
"Show me your id." Oh, this was difficult.
"I think you should give us a fine and we will go." I told him.
"I said show me your id." Okay.
"Okay." I showed him my id. Well, it was clearly written on the top of the card, Eagle. He saluted me and then bowed down. Why do people do that? I am not queen of England, I just saved the president and did some operations for intelligence and played with the president's kids, it was my duty. What's more special in it, than serving in the military to defend our country, it's one of the same. I held his shoulder.
"That's why I didn't want to show my I-card."
"Sorry sir." He shouted towards his companions to wrap around. I went near Emily smiling.
"Why did he bowed down to you?" well, what should I tell her?
"Hmm, the tradition is like that. They bow down when some traveller come to visit them." She seemed satisfied with the answer but she had some suspicion. Before she could say something, I started engine and went ahead. After riding some time I heard something.
"This place is miracle. Everything is beautiful here." She said. I was happy that she liked it. I sighed and stopped near the river. She pointed towards the village. "Some people live here."
"Yeah."
"Why all farms and villages are near rivers or seas?" she asked after some time. We started driving, and we were far ahead of the last stop.
"Because water is most important thing in the world."
"More than food?"
"Yes, more than food. If we couldn't drink water, we will die."
"Oh, so why this river is dirty, if it is important, we should keep it clean?" yeah, she was damn right. Her thinking power was going beyond genius, I was happy she was thinking about the nature.
"People become careless, if they have too much." I sighed. I couldn't look back but I knew she was thinking about something. But she didn't mentioned about it. So, I didn't push her, we rode in silence.
We were now in douglas. "You want to stop for eating?" It was 5 in the evening. She shook her head, so I went straight. We were in Casper, about 45 minutes.
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"I could see the mountains from here." She exclaimed. "Is it the same river?" I gave her a nod. It was 7 in the evening and we were staying in the hotel.
"We will go in the mountains tomorrow, to see the sunrise. Is it good?"
"Yeah, by the way you are going to carry me, on your back." I just fell on my back, on the bed. I sighed. "Hey I was kidding, tomorrow I will walk, okay." I smiled at her.
"I didn't say anything. I can carry you forever." I just said it, like casual. She didn't say anything, I was staring towards the ceiling. I turned towards Emily. She was crying. I quickly stood up and went near her. "Hey, I am sorry. Don't cry please." I wiped her eyes. I could see any pain in the world, but not the tears of Emily Norton, if they are of the pain.
"I am sorry, your back must be in pain." I wiped her eyes and gave her a hug.
"You weigh nothing to me, but these tears, they are heavier than you, and please I cannot carry the tears. Don't ever cry, you understood." She gave me a nod. I embraced her to my chest.
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"What is this thing?" Emily asked. I laughed. I have rented a cool mountain motorcycle for a day. It had a flat seat and it looked really weird.
"It's a mountain ride. Sit." It was 5 in the morning and were headed towards the casper mountains. I quickly parked the bike near one hut, I think it's a map of the mountains or something. And to my surprise, in just 20 minutes, Emily was snoring. Oh, man. I put her on my back, she didn't wake. I started climbing up, it was not that hard, and I had so much practise of climbing with weight on my back. I was tired and sun was started smiling on me, I roared and started walking fast. I turned towards Emily, and she was full awake. As I turned she closed her eyes. "I saw that." I said, she hit me on the head, and I started climbing again. I could really carry her forever, literally.
"Beautiful!" she shouted and the sound echoed. She laughed and the nature laughed with her. I took her pictures, this time all candid, because she didn't even looked at me, she was just looking towards the small tees and the sun. I thought the sun was sneaking upon Emily, jealous of her golden hairs. But he smiled and sent a cool breeze around us.
"Emily's hairs are more beautiful than you, sun." I shouted towards him, I shouted one more time.
"What are you doing?" she asked, as if I am embarrassing her in front of someone.
"Sun is jealous of your hairs." I shouted towards her. She blushed and smiled.
"You are so crazy." I didn't replied her on that one. Nobody said me crazy before, because I was the most decent guy in the town. And the right for saying that was with Emily only.
"Let's go." I put her on my back and climbed down, her head was on my left shoulder, she was looking at me.
"Is it a river again?" I gave her a nod.
"And we are camping under the stars today night." She lifted her head in awe. I held her head and placed her down where it was.
"You mean, here?"
"Yes. I took the permission from the department." She was thinking something.
"You are not a musician, are you?" I didn't say anything.
"I am a musician, why would you ask that?"
"How can you take the permission from the department in just a hour?" I laughed.
"We just have to pay 10$ to camp here. That's it."
"Oh." She seemed satisfied, and it was true. Just give 10$ and spend one night there.
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"Look at the flowers." She said, she was fascinated by everything. We were hiking on the creek falls, yeah, she was on my back, but that's not the point. We hiked all the part we could see by our eye and went back to the hotel.
We packed our essentials for camping and went in the woods, at 5 pm. After collecting the wood for fire and mosquito repellent cream, we roasted, I mean I roasted the bread and made sandwiches, with different vegetables, because I picked every vegetable I saw in the market. That was good. After everything was done, I closed the fire, I mean we cannot lit the fire all the night because wind was good, and I didn't want to lit the whole forest. Yeah, we were both in a single tent. The usual position of sleeping. After some time she looked up and asked me. "Can I ask you a question?" I was ready to talk all night.
"Yeah." I said happily.
"Don't be mad." I lift her chin.
"Hey, I will never be mad at you." She sighed.
"What happened to your old girlfriend?" my heart stopped beating for some seconds, and it was beating so fast. I tried to catch my breath, ooh. I breathed heavily, not to sound harsh. I became calm again in just some seconds. I sighed again.
"Why do you want that information?" I asked her smiling, but it was very fake.
"Why did you leave her?" oh, god, I want to cry.
"I, I didn't leave her." But, I did and it was true, I should have been there.
"So, where is she now?" I sighed again.
"Why do you need that?" I asked her irritated.
"You told me you won't be mad." Okay, I breathed heavily.
"I am sorry."
"Well?" Well, I thought, I should tell her, but the condition improved this much will be in vain. So what should I do? I sighed heavily.
"I, I left her." My eyes didn't care about anything in the world, the tears started coming out of my eyes. Did I?
"Why?" her eyes widened. I could see her moving apart from me. I could see her going away and giving my heart back to me.
"Because, I don't know." I really didn't.
"Were you two started fighting?" No, we never fought, in fact I wish why we didn't. my eyes were becoming red because of crying. And Emily also took her hand of my body, I was feeling alone, all of a sudden. I didn't know what I should do? But her questions had a point.
"No." I told her.
"So what happened between you two, that you left more beautiful girl than me and came to me to travel this much?"
"I don't know."
"What is more beautiful in me than her, what is more in me?" she was demanding now. Yeah, she had the right to do that. I never wanted this situation, I never thought about this situation.
"You, you are, I don't know." The tears were not stopping from my eyes. She came near me and wiped the tears. "Why ae you asking me all this, I really get pain even thinking about her, but when I look into your eyes, I feel relieved." She was thinking something.
"Have we really met before?" she asked, she was now angry and full of doubt. I sighed and wiped my eyes.
"No." this was really hard, my heart was pounding hard on my chest to tell her, my brain was creating a severe pain to not tell her. I was so trapped in misery and pain. Chose anything, the result is bad only.
"Sometimes I find myself in your old girlfriend." She sat upright, the tent was touching her head.
"No. You are more than her. She was just my girlfriend, you are more than just a girlfriend, you are more than just a girl, you are more than just beautiful."
"But I am not beautiful like your old one."
"Who told you that?"
"You mentioned it in the poem."
"I just described her beauty, I didn't compare you with her." She was thinking again.
"What if I would not beautiful?" I went near her, I sat up. Placed my hands on her shoulder. And looked in her eyes.
"I don't care." I told her. But she was not done.
"What if you also leave me after this all?" oh, Emily. I started crying again, yeah I deserved that, I left her in her difficult days, I was not near her, I was never with her. "Why are you crying now?" she wiped my eyes, I smirked, but my voice was choking.
"I cannot lose you again." She didn't understand. I was relieved but. I just gave her a hug. "I will not even think about leaving you, never, not even another life, not in any life, we will be together always. Whatever happens, I am going to be with you, whatever happens." She pushed me back.
"Okay." She wiped my eyes, and pushed me on my back. And we slept in our usual position. I was on a verge of losing Emily, I sighed. I sighed whole night. I couldn't afford this time. I embraced her in my arms, I could see the smile in the corner of her mouth.
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We started towards our destination at 10 in the morning and we headed towards billings, it was 4 hours ride from casper, but that's okay, we ate so much in casper. We were on 90th highway now.
"I can see the mountains from here!" she exclaimed, yeah, it was really beautiful road to drive on.
After two hours she started shouting. "What happened, why are you shouting?" I couldn't concentrate on the riding.
"There is a lake there, see." I quickly turned my head towards it and looked ahead. Yeah, I stopped down the road. She didn't even stopped for me, she started running towards the lake. She is a little girl. Happy, enthusiastic and full of curiosity about everything, she killed my heart last night but I was alive because of my tears. Ooh, I ran towards her. And then, wait, what did I say, I ran towards her. Yes! Yes! The old things are happening again, that's really good.
The lake was so big, and beautiful, some white birds were playing in the water, it was good place. I took some pictures of the birds and Emily, well candid.
"What is the name of this lake?" she shouted towards me, but I was very near her.
"Why are you shouting?" I asked her very calm.
"I am so excited." Oh, okay. I searched on my phone.
"It's called Lake De Smet."
"Oh." She played sometime in water. "Can I go in?"
"Hell no! you are not going in."
"Why?" she asked in her baby voice. I put my camera in my bag.
"That's it, let's go. It could be dangerous." I started walking towards motorcycle. I knew she would never be there alone, she followed me, very angry and frustrated. I started engine and she sat, she didn't hold my waist. I raced the motorcycle, she quickly held my waist. She hit me on my helmet, I was laughing.
I didn't have any plan stopping in ranchester, but I asked her about her stomach. I parked the motorcycle near the entry of the town. I turned around I mean I sat reverse on the bike, facing Emily.
"I am not hungry, I am angry and mad and crazy at you." She crossed her arms.
"I am sorry, okay. We never know what is in that lake. We should be careful. I don't want you to be in trouble. Not when I am alive." I told her slowly and in a serious voice. She didn't say anything. And then she held my kneck and kissed me, on the lips, my ear reader, on the lips. They were warm, the air was cold. The taste of sweetness and kindness and childishness all were mixed together, I could feel her tongue it was cold. We were kissing for eternity. She pushed me, not like hard, but just pushed me. "That was unexpected, and very good." She blushed. And that smile, I knew at that moment, I would never keep her alone anywhere, not even heaven.
"I think you should ride." I was just looking in her eyes, she was smiling. She shook my shoulder and I was back in real world.
"Don't ever do that."
"What? Kiss." I laughed.
"No. when I look into your eyes, never wake me up, never shake me up. I was not done."
"What's there in my eyes?" she was now curios. I turned and started the engine.
"Your eyes have a treasure in it, like a ocean." She smiled. "And the smile, oh god, the smile, I could just look that smile on your face. You are awesome."
"Thanks."
"You are welcome, if you want the description about your beauty, I am ready on one leg." She hit me on my helmet and we headed towards billings.
We were there at 6 in the evening, I just wanted to cross the border, I really was tired of riding the bike. We stayed there for a night and started our journey towards great falls. It was 4 hours from billings. Emily was fine now, she seemed good in people.
We were riding and Emily suddenly shook my shoulder. She was snot sleeping these days, because the view and scenery was more than enough to calm your eyes. She pointed towards the lake. Yeah, we were in barber and the lake was DEadman's basin reservoir, whoa, scary. But I stopped the bike near the road and we went near the lake. I stopped in the middle, I turned and went towards the motorcycle.
"What happened?" she asked.
"There is a road there, we can take our bike there." I was so fucking lazy.
"Oh." She sat behind and we were near the lake in just a minute, I didn't wan to walk that much. "They have boats, can we go in it, please."
"Of course." We went in the boat and got a beautiful ride around the lake, I took some photos. The water was pure blue and was beautiful looking.
We went near, where the crowd were, I saw one person who was selling roasted corn kernels. I turned towards Emily. "You want to eat? It's really tasty."
"Okay." I brought two of those, they were so hot, he was doing a great job. I gave one to her. She directly put the bite in her mouth, I tried to prevent that, her mouth was burned. I started laughing, she started shouting. She touched the corn on my neck, and I stood up and started shouting. It was really hot. She was laughing now.
The scene was really good, and we ate 3 corns that afternoon.
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We were in great falls at 7 in the evening, some stops near the mountains, the roads were beautiful and we had so much fun riding across the nature. We were at entry point of great falls.
"Can we camp in the mountains, I don't want to be in city today?" she asked.
"Um." I was thinking.
"Please, please." Oh, I didn't think after that.
"Okay." I headed towards the grocery store and some dry vegetables market. Brought some bread. I was thinking about where to live now, I mean yeah in hill areas but where exactly? Well, after thinking so hard I made a plan.
"We will travel for an hour, there is a hilly area near the road, so we will camp there only." I announced her. It was very risky, but why not to try.
"Okay." She said. "Thank you." And she kissed on my cheeks. Oh, god, I am the luckiest and happiest guy.
"You are welcome." I said. We headed on 89th highway towards 1 hour trip.
After some time, she was shouting.
"There are lakes here!" I looked towards my side, but it was dark, I could see the water because of the reflection, but no point of stopping.
"You want to stop?" but I asked her, it was my job.
"No, keep going. No point of stopping." Okay, we rode. After one hour we were in town called Choteau, yeah, weird name but it was a good town, I took left to head towards the hills and after 20 minutes we saw a bunch of camps.
"There are so many people here." She was shouting.
"Yeah, even they had some motorcycles." I think 20 or 25 of them were there. I sighed happily. We parked our motorcycle. I took the essentials, the fire was already there. And headed towards the big campfire. Emily was walking but she was holding my arm so tightly. "Riders are the coolest people in the world." But she didn't loosened my hand. I went near the campfire, they were shouting and singing songs that I didn't know. One of them looked towards us and gave a sign to go there. We went near him, he had a big beard and long hairs, perfect gang member, I thought. Emily was scared.
"You people lost?" he asked, Canadian accent. I sighed happily.
"No, we are heading towards Alaska, we thought about spending the night here." He laughed.
"Make yourself at home." He offered me a can of beer, I refused it. I turned towards Emily.
"See, I told you so. Bikers and if he is Canadian, you are the luckiest person to meet them." And it was true, Canadian people are really happy people, they don't fight or they don't even become angry, I don't know why. But they are good for centuries.
We went near the campfire, and roasted the food, we ate them, we shared them we sang the songs, it was great night under the stars. Very unforgettable. After everything was done, we were ready to sleep at midnight. I was really tired. I quickly went asleep. But she shook my head, hit my head and woke me up.
"Girl, what happened?"
"Let's watch the stars, please."
"I think we watched them half an hour ago." I was really feeling dizzy.
"Please, one more time." Oh, god. I can't win the argument with her, ever. I sighed and stood up. I held her hand and went outside, we sat on the small rock, and watched the stars. Her head was on my shoulder, and she was holding my arm. After some time she was snoring. I laughed. I picked her up and dropped her in the tent. I quickly went to asleep.
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"Hey, man." Someone was shouting outside of our tent. I woke up, it was already sunrise. I went out. The beard guy was standing near my tent. "Good morning."
"Good morning."
"We are leaving now." Everybody was packing their stuff.
"Oh, okay." He offered me handshake. I gave him a hug. we laughed. He started his engine.
"Where are you from?" he turned around.
"A happy world." I shouted.
"Nice." He laughed. He went on.
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We started riding at 8 in the morning, our food was finished. We would be in Canada in two hour. She was so hungry.
"I will try to find a city." I consoled her. After an hour we were in browning. We ate there, it was a good city. The mountains were near the city area.
"Can we visit the mountains?" she asked, she was not enthusiastic.
"I think we should go ahead, or the snow will be water when we reach there." She seemed worried. "I was kidding my little girl, the snow in Alaska never becomes water." She was relieved. She hit me on my head. We headed towards Canadian border. After an hour we were at the border.
"Why people are with guns here?" she asked. The border patrol. Of course. I sighed.
"Just a security, we are leaving our country back."
I took the permission and went ahead. After some time we stopped at cardston. We were eating some salads and veggies. She was playing something on my phone, I think candy crush.
"Who is president?" she asked.
"The president of United States."
"I know that much, okay." She snapped. "But who is this one, the contact in your phone."
"Same." I quickly blurted out. Her eyes widened.
"Is this a joke?" I laughed.
"No."
"I don't trust you on this one."
"Well you can try." I took the phone and called the president. I gave her, she took it confidently. He picked the phone in 3rd ring.
"Oh, hello, John."
"Hello. Is this Mr. president?" Emily asked nervously. I was trying not to laugh.
"Yes., but this is John Clifford's phone, how did you get it?" she was sweating now. But she seemed confident.
"Why should I trust you?" Emily told him. I took the phone out of her hands.
"I am sorry Mr. president. She is curious, she thinks I am lying." President laughed.
"Oh, what should I do gain her trust?" I gave the phone to Emily, now she was scared. "Wait a minute." He was silent for some time. "Ok, Emily Norton, right?"
"Yeah." She was happy.
"You people are sitting in the restaurant in cardston, in Canada. Why are you in Canada?" I took the phone out of her hand. She was holding her head and cursing inside her heart.
"I am sorry Mr. president, we are on a vacation. We are heading towards Alaska."
"Oh. Emily, means the girl you described last month?"
"Yes sir."
"Give her phone. I want to talk to her." She was refusing to take the phone. But I gave her. There was no one in the restaurant, but I was scared about talking to the president like this. But he is the coolest guy in the world, so no worries.
"I am sorry, sir. I am really sorry." She started crying. I was laughing.
"Hey, it's okay. So having fun with John?"
"Yes." She laughed but she was crying happily.
"That sounds you are crying. Don't cry. If John gives you trouble, I am here to whip his ass." We both laughed.
"I am sorry, I bothered in the middle of the work."
"Nah, it's okay. Okay, we will meet some time. Give him phone." I took the phone.
"Okay, meet me with the girl. And musician is not bad." I laughed. "Okay, we will meet."
"Yes sir. Have a nice day sir." He hung up the phone. Emily stood up and came near me. and she started hitting me.
"You are so idiot." I held her hands and placed her in the table.
"I told you. I don't lie in the serious matters." She kissed me, yeah on the lips.
"Well, you made my day." And she gave me a hug.
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We were in Calgary in 4 hours and that was very big city, I mean compared to last towns we stopped for.
"Is this Alaska?" she asked, confused and curious. I laughed.
"No."
"Can you see the snow?" she pointed towards the White Mountains.
"Yes. We will visit tomorrow." We were staying in the hotel, and it was 4 in the evening. There was no point going there now. We would go there tomorrow.
"Yeah. It's so cold here." I stood up.
"Okay, we are going for shopping. Buy some hoodies or sweaters."
"Okay."
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"Hey wake up." I was shaking Emily's shoulder, it was 5 in the morning and the sunrise in the snowy mountains is the best you would ever get.
"I don't want to." And she slept again. I picked her up and put her on my back. I climbed down. Yeah, I have rented a RE yesterday. I put her on the back seat and started the engine. It was very cold. She was covered with full of clothes and she was hugging me from back. I also felt some warmth. I headed towards trans Canadian highway and then 93rd highway. I parked my motorcycle near the border of British Columbia and Alberta and picked her up on my back. She was snoring. Ugh, how much does she sleep, an answered question. The mountain was really hard to climb, I mean without the person on my back, it would be hard. But I started climbing and stopped, from where we could see the sunrise and there was snow in there. I wiped the snow out of the rock and placed her there, I shook her wide awake. She saw the sunrise, I was ready with camera. I took so many photos there, and the snow, she didn't know what to do with the snow.
"Can I eat it?" she asked, I laughed. I knew the consequences.
"Go on." I was trying not to laugh. She ate some and threw it out of the mouth.
"It's so cold." She shouted.
"I know."
"Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
"Because, you cannot sleep now." She hit me on the head. "Ow." I played hurt.
"I am sorry." She was looking in my head. I quickly picked some snow and put it in her neck. "Ooh, why did you do that?" she started hitting me on my head.
I held her hand sat on the rock, we just watched the sun. "This is really beautiful."
"Yes." I replied. But not more than you.
"Yeah." What? I thought she read my mind. Nah, that's impossible. I stood up.
"Okay, there are so many places to visit here, I think we should stay here for two nights, what do you think?" she stood up and wiped the snow out of her dress.
"You are the best." And she kissed me on cheeks. "Is that a river?" I gave her a nod.
"We are going there, now."
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After wandering in the Calgary, we started towards Alaska, I wasn't sure we should get in the Alaska, I thought about kluane national park, so need to go in Alaska. I booked the trip and guide and everything for two nights there. And after travelling for 2 days and watching every other beautiful thing on the road, we were near the kluane. Okay, I was scared of denali, I don't want to go there, it's really scary. So I took the best possible and cutest way.
"Whoa!" she looked up and towards the mountains.
"Well, this is our final stop. After that we will return to America, and watch more beautiful things." It's been 16 days we were travelling. She was worried going back, she was becoming the part of the nature. I parked the bike and entered in the office. There was just a one room and two people. I waved to them. One came near me, she was a woman, I think 24 or something, I don't care.
"Well, we are here, we booked 3 days ago. We want to wander and hike." I told her. She was scanning us, we were covering every [art of the body, it was fucking cold.
"First and most important rule, watch the bears. And then do anything else." Fuck, I thought. "Ok now for the welcome thing. This is 22000 square kms area, if you get lost, we have nothing to do with it. You just stick with us." She is scaring me. I looked towards Emily, she was fucking excited.
"Cool." She said. What? This girl is mad. I really wanted to go home now.
"It's a UNESCO heritage site, some mountains are even 6000 metres high. We have everything, rivers, lakes, glaciers and hills. We will go on the mountains with the aeroplane and then after that I will tell you."
"okay." I said nervously. she offered me handshake.
"Hello, I am Jessica." I did the handshake. She did with Emily as well.
"I am Emily Norton." She said. Jessica turned towards me puzzled. Okay.
"I am Jonathan Clifford." I sighed.
"We have to do some registration and paperwork, I need your id."
"Both of us?" I asked.
"No, any one's will be okay." I turned towards Emily.
"Why don't you sit there and drink some water, I will do the paperwork and we will off to go." She went near it and sat there. I dragged Jessica away from Emily. "Here." I showed her the id. Her eyes widened.
"Hmm, Eagle. Should I bow you, nah, you are in Canada."
"I didn't say anything." I said. She was really irritating.
"So, you have a very, very good physical standards."
"Yes."
"Have you done para jumping?"
"Yes." I said, she was doing the paperwork but asking the question at the same time.
"At what height?"
"Um, 10000."
"Feet?"
"Metres, I think it's common."
"You are really good. 10000 feet is common."
"Oh."
"How many times?" this was a good question, I really never counted.
"I really never counted, probably more than 100 times, do we count the small helicopter jumps without parachutes? Then it will be more than 500 times." I wasn't sure, I was thinking about the number. I looked towards her. Her eyes were wide. "What? I think it's so little number. My friends have done it more than 1000 times."
"You are really tough man." Hmm, I didn't respond.
"Any experience in mountaineering?" I was thinking about denali.
"Yeah, Denali two times and bon and other in America, I wanted to climb the Everest but they didn't send me there. Bad luck, but it's okay."
"What? Why do you need a guide?" I went near her.
"I don't need the guide, I don't care about myself, I care about the girl who is sitting on that chair. She is very precious to me. Every help I can get from you is for her. And you also, don't care about me, care about her." She gave me a nod. She understood what I was trying to convey.
"Okay."
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"Whoa there is snow and lakes everywhere!" Emily was exclaiming, we were on the plane and we heading towards our spot. We had all the mountaineering things on our body, like the sticks and the ski and some nail shoes, I don't know what to call them, I never cared about these things, when you climb a mountain you never care about things you have, you care about your life.
"Yeah." Jessica answered. "We are going to land in the mount queen mary, and do some hiking there. You good?" she asked Emily, Emily was holding her head. Yeah, it gets headache when you are high and in the snow.
After hiking and planting our tents we sat near the tent.
"Are we going to live for the night?" Emily asked me. I turned towards Jessica for answer. She understood.
"Yes. We will stay here and then tomorrow we will go somewhere else. Don't eat too much snow, it can cause headache." I laughed and turned towards Emily, who was eating the snow.
"Hey, calm down, it's not for eating, we have a food." She threw the snow and joined me for the eating, the time was going so faster than the normal time.
"We can see the moon even if it's not dark!" she was exclaiming for everything. "It's a midnight!" she was shouting. I laughed.
We stayed there for two nights, Emily's idea. After two nights we went towards the jungle and non-snowy area.
"There is no snow here." She said. But it was beautiful.
"There is a glacier here." Jessica answered. Yeah, we were in danjek route.
"What's a glacier?" Emily asked me.
"The river with full of ice. The river of ice." I answered. Jessica was smiling.
"Cool."
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"We are going to ride them." I told Emily. Well, we are going to cover the distance on horses. And I love horse riding. We packed the supplies on his back. I quickly climbed up on the horse.
"I don't know how?" Emily complained. I climbed down, Jessica was on the other horse. I picked Emily and sat on the horse. And then I climbed behind her. She was holding the reins, the horse was angry because the reins were too tight.
"Give me." I took the reins from her and loosened them. Horse relieved. I kicked the horse and we headed towards the river.
At the river we stopped.
"The mountains are becoming red. Beautiful!!" she exclaimed.
"Yes." We stopped and took some photos. The river was also very beautiful. The light was very perfect in the valley. We stayed there for a night. It was really scary but good, we were staying on the peak.
The descending was very hard. After some hours, we were at glacier. I was looking towards Emily, she was the happiest of all, she was just looking towards them and taking pictures of nearly everything.
"How can a river be filled with ice?" she asked, I was thinking about her, I was lost in her thoughts. I was not sure what I hear. She shook my shoulder. "I sked you something."
"Oh, I am sorry."
"Jessica is nicer than you." She turned towards Jessica. I gave her a smile. She understood, we headed towards the lake. We were like 5 days or something in here. Just wandering and looking into the eyes of nature. At last we were near the big horn lake.
"We will go to canoeing I the mush lakes, we have to go there in aeroplane." Jessica announced, yeah, the water aeroplane, I never liked those. We hired two of them.
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"This is the most beautiful place I have ever seen, more than John's face." Emily was shouting in front of everyone. I was blushing, yeah, it was more beautiful than my face. We were at mush lakes. "The lake, the White Mountain the river the jungle everything, in one place." She was shouting. I dragged her down, we were camping at the shore, and sat near me.
"Calm down girl."
"It's really beautiful, thank you John." And she hugged me, I ruffled her hairs. I lifted her chin up, she was crying.
"I think I told you something about crying." She wiped her eyes and pressed her head into my chest. I ruffled her hair. I closed my eyes. I was lost, but I found the way, and it was Emily. We just sat there hugging each other, caring nothing, I just wanted her close, near me. I just wanted her to be here, always, forever and till eternity.
She was whispering something. I lifted her chin up. "What?" I asked in a low voice.