As Boyd watched Oliver drag body and mind out of another lengthy nap, he decided that it was those teasing just-waking-up stretches that got to him the most. Oliver had managed to make it as far as a sign that read ‘Alamo Park’ wherein he’d offered up a joke about the sign being forgettable that flew well over Boyd’s head, before falling asleep. The kid had a knack for coming up with one-liners about almost everything they saw that usually had Boyd scratching his head as opposed to laughing. Yet, as much as Boyd didn’t get Oliver’s humor, he did regret the silence when Oliver drifted off. He dealt by switching the Beach Boys, on their second turn around, for a collection of Presley, and let the singer croon him through wasteland. He pulled over just south of Wickenburg to leave a deposit a
