Thirteen - Speaking of Courage

I had to read through this chapter three times before I understood what was happening. At first I thought it was about an old vet doing laps in a run down camaro (because chevy is too vague, and I assigned him a model to go with his make) and reminiscing those less-than-palmy days. Song reference? anyone? anyone? buhler?

Eventually on that third read, I drew the connection between how his drive never ventures outside the circular road around the lake, and his story that he desperately wants to share never makes it outside his head. He thinks about telling it to Sally Kramer/Gustafson but doesn't in the end, and he walks himself through a mental scenario with his father, but it doesn't actually happen, and he almost blurts everything out to the intercom at an A&W, but then decides against it. He really wants to tell his story, but he just doesn't. However, it looks like he finally got his story out to the whole world through his good buddy Tim O'Brien.

This is one of the new camaros. It makes me happy to think that Bowker got to drive one of these around the lake, even though I know he didn't.