* grab yourself a steamy beverage and a cozy chair, this one is long! 5100 words and 65 pictures!
** warnings: briefly NSFW.
What are you going to do in Nevada? Not stay there, Maria would soon find out, because Jordan mentioned the wild horses in Arizona and Johanna lost her little mind over the idea. So now they were in Arizona, scouting the canyons for wild horses. Among this and many other things she never would have guessed her life could include, there was the sound of yodeling on the canyon walls. Back and forth, a booming manly echo answered by sprightly little girl song, growing closer and mixed with laughter. He taught her to yodel. Maria never would have guessed that he knew how to yodel, but so he did, and now they both did.
Long after their sound gave them away, Maria saw them emerge around the bend of the trail, carrying back their sacks full of treasure. Would it be rocks, pine cones, sticks shaped like swords?
“Did you see any horses?”
“No, we found bugs! We’re gonna eat them!” Johanna’s face was bright with the idea.
“Oh, God, no! You can’t eat a bug!”
“Jordan said we can!”
She gaped at him in horror. He shrugged with a sheepish grin. “How’s it different from eating any other animal?”
Maria was prepared for there to be bugs on this wild adventure, but she never imagined they were going to eat them!
