He lectured me soundly on going out without backup and said he was glad I had survived. Riley would have held him personally responsible if anything h...d happened to me. We went by my hotel and picked up the remainder of my clothes and roll-aboard. I got him to stop at an electronics superstore, and bought a new laptop, a GPS transmitter, and a cell phone. On the way to the airport, I put the things I needed from the computer box in my bag and activated the GPS transmitter. I called Riley from. "Sorry I'm late, Papi." He sat down with the others, although he winced as he did.I looked at the three of them. Grumpy, Happy and Dopey. "Ok, spill it. Now what?"Juan tittered. "I told them about last night, Papi." He blushed, but he was grinning from ear to ear. "Someone's jealous." I'm not jealous!" Yann snapped. "I'm just ... impatient." He looked at me and shrugged. "I'm last." I get today." Ivan said gleefully. "But it has to be after lunch, because you have a dinner tonight."After lunch. We all met at Holly’s and my friends came over there first and we had a couple of glasses of wine. Auntie Sarah popped her head round the door and wished us all a good time. She did give me and Holly a wary look which told us we must behave ourselves. Holly laughed, gave her a hug and a kiss, and she left us alone. My friends don’t know we get spanked, but I knew Auntie Sarah’s look told me to be careful or risk a painful end to my birthday celebrations. It was going to be an extra specially. ” her eyes got big. “That’s in Kansas.”“I paid cash ... no paper trail.” Then I took out my wallet and checked the cockpit engine hours. “Nine at Fifty.” I counted out four hundred fifty dollars and handed it to her.“Nine fucking hours?” she said. “God! I slept like a baby.”She was looking at the chart ... and grabbed my logbook.“Lamar, Arlington, Rocky Ford, La Junta, Las Animas? Walter Ranch!”“Grass strip ... same as KX...” I grinned.And that was the end of my lessons. From then on I drove.