He kept his head down as the drops pattered into him, as his wheels sluiced through puddles in the middle of Cirby Boulevard. Every once in a while he...would look around in wonder at the six-lane road he was on, trying to remember what it had been like before the war, when automobile traffic had choked every intersection, when the smell of exhaust had permeated the air.There were no automobiles on the road now. With the gasoline ration set at one gallon per household per month, and with that one. I was turned around and my wrists were clamped into restraints making me a “Y” and a leather tail crashed on my back! I was being flogged! They flogged my back and abs slowly, firmly, and hotly! I was sweating so much that I could feel the beads going between my pecs and being hit by the tail. My nipples had snake bite cups on them and he hit them with the tail handle. I groaned, and loved every second, then it stopped as quickly as it started. Someone removed the blind fold, and kissed. I’d thanked Willy and showered and gone to bed early. And up early.We took my two cans of diesel with us, as well as water, a chunk of cheese, half a salami-like sausage, and about a third of a loaf of bread. I took my last three chocolate bars and my hat from the Rover.Once we had fuelled Rainbow and gotten underway, Evans hauled out a pair of charts of the Clarence, one from just above Mountain View to Cowper, where the South Arm forked off, the other from the fork to the ocean beyond Hickey. .." as she gave me a quick kiss and ran out trying to beat the morning rush hour traffic. I had my shower, then cleaned up my house, not that it was dirty,it was just something to occupy my mind from thinking about tonight! While hoovering I heard my phone ringing................. "Hello........." "Hi Babe, it's me........." It was Debbie........... "Have we got anything planned for tonight?" "Well........." I told her........ "I did intend stopping in tonight as all these late nights are.