" So. Do you want to move to Tuvalu? Or Oodnadatta?" We should definitely go to Oodnadatta! It's part of your family history." True. My great-great-gr...ndfather mapped the waterhole. But I've no urge to go." Rachel was quite for a few moments. "But I know something. You need to go." What?" Oh," she laughed, "Not to Oodnadatta. But you need to go walkabout. Not really far, but somewhere. You need to talk to your snake. You need to calm your agitation and still your disquiet. Go for a day or two. My buddy Joel, who graduated a couple of years ago, has a house in Phoenix, and he had said I could crash there while he was in the Caribbean with his immensely hot girlfriend. I'd bought tickets for the earliest date possible, and after my last final had grabbed my suitcase and raced to the airport.It had been evident I'd not been the only one with this idea, though; this town is packed with transients soaking up the sun before returning to whatever frigid environs they hail from. The end. We suspected a conspiracy – dads can plot and scheme too you know!Outside Liz leaned against Dan’s car and settled herself to wait for Dan. I wandered over to where Mr D. had parked his bike. It sat there on the nature strip like the statue of some huge, hulking monster just waiting for a wizard to wave his wand and make it spring to life. I ran my hands over the painted letters on its side.“Hey, do you remember when I first saw your dad’s bike?” I said to Liz. “I said I thought it was cool how. His car was parked directly across the street.Warren turned, and found Janie standing on the sidewalk, her hand to her mouth simply looking on.He went to her then and she folded herself against him, and was crying. She was saying ‘thank you, thank you’ over and over again.Warren held her; it took a while before she calmed down. She was still sobbing.“Okay,” he said, “You come with me; I think that we need dinner and then I’m going to keep you for the night to let you calm down.”“Yes, please,”.