Your writing is such a pleasure to read, @johnkingwriter. Are you sure you want to write fiction? You would do bloody well as an essayist!

The descriptions in this post had me in a sweat. And I’ve nearly wreaked a car when a spider dropped into view in front of my face. I can’t imagine what the experience must have been like on a bike. Glad you sprouted wings like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang just in time to fly over the cattle guard!