The brazen heat of the omnipresent sun was scorching up the abandoned stretch of asphalt highway as a lone biker makes his way through the desert terrain of Arizona wasteland. The only relief he feels from the unrelenting sun is the quick speed and rapid velocity at which he rides his dust-covered Harley Hog down the highway. He is dressed in a studded black leather vest and tight denim blue jeans as the jolts of horsepower emanating from the powerful engine of his speeding motorbike vibrate through his long, thick beard and his desert-tanned muscular physique. Through his dark, dime-store sunglasses, he notices a signpost at the side of the road announcing the small town of Rattler's Ridge just a few miles ahead. He then begins to release the throttle of his dust-covered, Harley Hog as he makes his way into town.
With a virtually non-existent population, the town of Rattler's Ridge consists only of a filling station and a roadhouse saloon with a few desolate adobe stucco houses centred along the stretch of main highway. Parched from thirst, the lone biker parks his bike next to the entrance of the roadhouse and decides to search in earnest for a cool beer or two. He then passes through the swinging wooden doors of the roadhouse to reveal a dark and isolated scene consisting of a few worn, vinyl bar stools centred around the dimly lit tavern bar. In one corner of the roadhouse is an antiquated jukebox playing a long forgotten B-side of Tammy Wynette single and in the other corner is a dusty billiards table illuminated only by the glare of an overhead TV set playing the movie 'Rio Bravo' with the sound turned off.
The two other occupants of the roadhouse are immediately taken aback by his appearance as his faded leather biker boots clang against the wooden floor of roadhouse covered in peanut shells. Within this isolated scene, the biker becomes immediately entranced by the beautiful vision sitting before him. This beautiful vision is an attractive Asian woman in her early 40's with a beautiful mane of long black hair pinned back in a ponytail. She is also dressed in an evocative, dark-coloured business suit with black mesh pantyhose and high-heeled stiletto pumps. The inquisitive young lady tilts her head to the side and stares intensely at the biker through her horn-rimmed glasses. She then turns her head away and begins to sip her Cosmopolitan more vigorously as the dusky biker makes his way to the bar stool next to her.
The wily old proprietor of the roadhouse is standing behind the bar and slides a bottle of Tecate down the length of the grimy bar to the biker as he sits next to this beautiful vision of a woman. The biker catches the travelling bottle of beer with his firm right hand as he stares immodestly at the refined young woman through his dark sunglasses. The exotic beauty then extends her soft porcelain skinned hand to the biker and introduces herself as 'Rhonda'. She then tells him she is a primary school teacher from Kingsman, Arizona who is making her way down to Pheonix after a nasty break up with her husband.
The biker, in turn, removes his dark sunglasses from his handsome, chiselled face and introduces himself as 'Andy'. He tells her that he is travelling across the American Southwest on his bike in search of some good times and self enlightenment. Andy then compliments Rhonda on her captivating beauty and sexy voice. Rhonda too is immediately drawn to the handsome stranger as she looks deeply into his dark and alluring eyes. The proprietor of the Roadhouse catches on to the immediate pick up between the biker and the schoolteacher and immediately exits the scene through a creaky backdoor behind the tavern bar.
