Driving in English

A Story by Abishai100

Will a post-9/11 era Homeland drive-journey for two college-grad pals yield a 'metaphysical' view of American Ego?

A homeland cross-country adventure inspired by My Own Private Idaho (River Phoenix). Enjoy,

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Amlan/Raki prepared their cross-country tour of the American Homeland, renting a used Saab 9-3 to drive with their gifted post-grad credit-cards from their families and looking for an adventure to unwind and forget about all the history education about war/peace complications in Earth-history. Hopefully, they'd meet some cool folks while playing on social-media on their journey too (hmm).

AMLAN: I brought my miniature Peanuts-chess set for the trip.

RAKI: You expecting to meet some chess-wizard who plays mobile?

AMLAN: You never know...you might meet a wealthy aristocrat.

RAKI: A princess (maybe).

Along the way they made special stops at WalMart/supermarkets and inquired about the merchant-awareness of modern 'blood-diamond traffic' and if the store/markets were 'conscious' the surfaced dilemma of conflict-zone gem mining financing rogue terrorism. This was a parody-play for theater-messaging of course, and usually they got nice smalltown chuckles from the market-folk they'd offer their special 'joke' too while taking iPhone-shots of Homeland shopping life (ha).

AMLAN: We only look for Sunoco for gas-stops for the Saab.

RAKI: Why Sunoco, friend?
AMLAN: It's a 'good' American way to go, Raki; it's our choice (now).

RAKI: Alright, Amlan (wow).

Along their drive-through Arizona (American Southwest) they picked-up a depressed housewife named Lana who'd been enduring an alcoholic marriage and sought to simple pick-up and 'flee' and zoom to Cali, which is where they promised to take her, and they realized she'd become a right 'courtship' romance fable for them to create a rather 'cool' trio of driving Americans.

LANA: I'm posting some of our window-views to share with my girlfriend(s) on social-media, fellows.

AMLAN/RAKI: Watch out for those lesbians of Satanic-worship.

LANA: You two are such nihilists.

Driving across the Homeland in the post-9/11 era for an 'American-view' was quite the patriot-fantasy given this newfound world-treat of terrorism, and Amlan/Raki/Lana now composed a special 'patriot-three' thinking of themselves as 'world-heroes' with their social-media posts and stories about the value of United States eternity.