"Where would you like to go?" I asked, now in the passenger seat, as she shifted gears pulling out of the lot. There were plenty of fast food restaur...nts in the area, but I was ready to pick up the bill if she wanted to go to a nicer place."I've made arrangements already," she said. "You'll see when we get there. If you have a cell phone with you, turn it off. I don’t want to be disturbed by an annoying ring tone or it buzzing like a vibrator up your ass."After shutting off my phone I tried. I saw the young woman coming right at me, across the park from more than fifty yards away. She was dressed in white, a white tee shirt, white shoes and white jogging shorts. She was tall and athletic, with short blonde hair and she had a little female Jack Russell on a leash that was standing on her hind legs against the leash as she watched Bandit showing off.Bandit spotted them and the show was on. The first thing he did was run stick his nose in her butt. I knew as soon as he did that the. It has been a hotly contested area by navies since man decided that hollowing out logs and floating around on the water was a good thing. So, with it being part and parcel of any history lesson on the region, you might expect it to be visually striking as well.Yeah, not so much.I think it is a matter of scale, primarily, and human perception of scale. See, when you look at a globe or even a flat map, that tiny gap between Gibraltar and Tangier, Morocco seems like such a slim corridor for ships. I was afraid for the first time since I'd met her."Dale do you remember the first time we met?" she asked. I nodded as I looked at her and she took my hand."Do you remember how I told you that I knew as soon as I saw you that you were into me?" she asked."Of course, I do," I said. "You told me that you were an acquired taste," I laughed.Then I noticed that she wasn't laughing. "What happened?" I asked."A couple of days ago, when we were at the Miller's party," she began. "We met that new guy..