Author's note: My uncle Ron died recently. While sifting through his files, I found journal folders marked MY STORY, containing accounts of his life, which I am adapting and editing. These stories include bisexuality, incest, interracial and mature and group sex, etc. All sexual activity depicted here involves persons at least 18 years old.
His younger friend Dex told the following tales to Ron. These stories stand alone from the RON'S JOURNAL series. The DEXTER GOES SOUTH series is fairly independent of the earlier Dexter accounts, although some characters here are introduced in DEXTEROUS DEXTER 01. This current series chronicles Dexter's travels in Mexico and Central America. For readers' convenience, most Spanish language speech and signals are presented in loose English translation.
DEXTER GOES SOUTH #1 - SCHOOL'S OUT - I RIDE ACROSS MEXICO, June-July 1972
So I frenched and fucked my friends
adios,
and left Greater Los Angeles, riding south to Panama.
Well, there was more to it than that. The planning and logistics took some doing. The advice was free.
My high school graduation gift was a new motorbike of my choice. I weighed the trade-offs. A heavy cruiser would be comfy for long hauls on good roads, but not so good on gravel or dirt, and would suck gas. A light trail bike would be fuel-efficient, but not good for hauling gear, and would certainly be tiring and painful on long rides. I compromised on a Yamaha 350.
I had a fairly flexible schedule. My road time would be about July 1 to September 1, with maybe an extra week leeway at each end. I allocated that as three weeks across Mexico to Guatemala City a.k.a. Guate (WHAH-tay), three weeks to Panama and back to Guate, and a final three weeks to return by another Mexican route. If I had to fudge some days, I would likely add time to the middle Guate-Panama-Guate segment.
The time and vehicle dictated my gear choices.
I got a travel pack with panniers to hang from a sissy bar. This arrangement allowed room for a passenger behind me. I had an ultra-light tent weighing just a kilo, a wool blanket as a ground pad, and a goosedown bag. I do not much like cotton for travel outerwear but I managed a sturdy and light clothes kit. Yes, I took a helmet, and a basic tool kit.
I had a light camping mess kit and an electric immersion heater. I took two half-frame 35mm cameras: a spring-wound Canon Dial-35, and an Olympus Pen-FT SLR with its ultra-light 24mm, 50mm and 100mm lenses, total weight just over a kilo. I took my little bamboo sax and a soprano ukulele. My needs were simple, yes.
I would not be collecting souvenirs, except to mail home. I would also mail home my film after developing it. Most big cities had photo labs where I could process film on my own. No sense risking exposed rolls. No sense lugging all those rolls around the continent either.
Then there was the well-meaning advice.
My Panama-raised brother-in-law Dan was a bit negative, but he had not traveled north of Costa Rica, so his info on Nicaragua, Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala was second-hand. I listened anyway.
"Dextro baby, you gotta lose the California license plates. They see those, they'll chew you up and spit you out. Get some C.A. (Central America) plates. Most of the army guys there are OK but every city cop is a crook, and so are the customs scum. Costa Rica is OK, but the rest of C.A. is just corrupt as hell."
My Mayan-born classmate and fuckbuddy Rosalita fixed the license plates problem. (She was my language coach; I was her cunning linguist.) Her family flew south during Easter break for the Americas' greatest Semana Santa (Holy Week) festival in Antigua Guatemala. She brought back five pungent greasy boxes of Pollo Campero takeout, and a 'legal' set of C.A. motorcycle plates and papers, lacking only the bike serial number for me to fill in, heh heh.
My bisexual buddy Alex's family had driven to Costa Rica and back the previous summer. He had a warning.
"Be real careful whose dick you offer to suck, Dex. Queers and bi's can survive in the big cities, and are accepted by Zapotec Indians around Tehuantepec, but everywhere else, you're risking your life. Machismo kills. You'd better stick to girls on this trip. There are lots of them, and they're cheap and friendly."
I was all packed up and provisioned, loaded with maps, and hot to trot, by June 25. That looked like a good starting date. So I frenched and fucked my friends
adios,
and headed south.
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My first day was an easy ride past the Salton Sea to Yuma. I planned to get a cheap dinner, then pitch my tent alongside what was left of the Colorado River. Early evening, I stopped at a pizza parlor, ordered a small special and an Anchor Steam beer, and spread maps over my table. The cute young woman in a cheesy corporate skirt-and-shirt uniform who brought my order looked down with interest.
"Going somewhere, cowboy?" she asked in a lilting accent.
"Yes, to Panama. Want to come along?" I invited teasingly.
"Merci, you don't know how much I am tempted now," she said.
"Temptation is only ignored at your own risk, or so I've heard."
Twenty-four-year-old Marie was a tall curvy well-tanned redhead from Quebec. She said she had moved here because she did not like the cold and prices up north. She was saving money for her own next travel south. We chatted about past and future adventures and ambitions and whatever.
Business was slow. Marie sat next to me as I finished eating.
"Have you come far already? Where are you staying tonight?"
"This is my first day on the road. And I thought I would camp out."
"Non non, that won't do. You will stay at my place. We close here at nine, cheri, and I get off a half-hour later. You will wait here until then, oui?"
"Merci beaucoup, I will do just that. But I must buy some gas first. I'll be right back."
I did, and I did, and I was.
Marie's apartment was only a half-block from her workplace. But the night was young, so she climbed behind me and held on. I took us for a spin along the river and canals. I pulled over on a levee spur, extracted the blanket from my pack, and spread it on the ground. We sat, looking to the northwest, the barren desert mountains lit by the full moon. Marie nestled against my shoulder.
I pointed straight ahead. "Go far enough that way, you're in San Francisco, The City by The Bay. Can you hear the foghorns?"
I pointed off to the far right. "Travel far enough that way, you're back in Quebec." I felt Marie grimace.
I twisted around and pointed right behind us. "Fly to that compass point and we're in the Yucatan."
I gestured to our left. "Swim in that direction and we're in Fiji, dancing naked under the palms."
I pulled Marie close to me. "But right now, we're just right here." I kissed her. She kissed back. Her mouth held mine for wonderful minutes.