... to the road and, at the last moment, realized that the other driver was on the wrong side, and didn't know it. I pulled the car over into the mud again, and the other car stopped. There ... overseas. They stayed there, waiting for their ship. Most of them were on their way to Okinawa, Japan. And most of them were running away from something — usually the law. One night I was the only ... frightened the others in the car. We left Sacramento at dawn and were crossing the Nevada desert by noon. It was a hot, sunny afternoon, and all the towns along the Nevada road rolled by one after...