\ This is the truest story I have submitted to Literotica. Those of you who read past this disclaimer will be happy to learn that it is also the most unbelievable. The idea that two middle aged adults could have the degree of libido depicted in this story is unbelievable—but true. Yes, this means that both characters were well over the age of 18. Nelly and I had been living in a small apartment with two teenaged sons who did not get along while I was extremely busy writing my dissertation. The vacation the story pictures took place just after my dissertation was approved—the end of a long hard slog. Adding to the pleasure of the occasion, I had just found a large bud of marijuana on the passenger side of the floor of the car—an artifact of my oldest boy or one of his friends. Nelly and I had been "dry" during my studies which were to important to our future to take chances. I don't know if they ever missed it, but they must have because it was both deluxe and king-sized. The place names are changed to keep our secret place just that. If the description here is enough to show someone the way, good luck to you.
There is a place somewhere. I've been there. It's tucked up against the granite shoulders of the High Sierras. The river of the devil runs through it—Rio Diablo. He's a minor devil, and actually a pretty nice guy. His waters run cold but with the summer the air temperatures in the 90's, who cares?
We didn't have far to carry our gear, and with the heat that was a good thing. But by taking everything but the kitchen sink with us it was a hard slog. Each of us each carried both a pack and a duffle bag. My bag contained a 8 x 10 Persian carpet; Nelly carried the pillows, air mattresses, and sleeping bags—we're sissies when it comes to sleeping on the ground.
Nelly was irritable at first because the trail led up a slide of loose scree and she had a hard time handling balancing. I told her to wait while I took my stuff up to the top and hurried down again to take her bag. I would have taken her pack too, but she wouldn't let me. She has her pride.
The geography on top was a fascinating formation of gullied granite. Cracks in solid stone formed a chessboard-like grid. The gullies had eroded, each one its own ecosystem, filled with succulents, trillium, pine, madrona, manzanita, poison oak and a universe of mosses and lichens mixed together to form random beauty. Making our way over this terrain was challenging. We chose to carry our baggage in two trips and moved in leaps and bounds, always keeping our gear in view, staying close to the edge of the escarpment, enjoying the view of the river below and the impenetrable profusion of chaparral which splashed its way from the river to the bottom up the cliff like a breaking wave. From the edge we could see the dry riverbed that was our destination.
First we had to scramble down from the top of the cliff, throwing our bags ahead of us, clinging to roots and tree branches, working hard to brake and stay in control. When we finally arrived at the bottom we were sweaty and scratched by passing thorns, stickers and burrs stuck in our hair and looking bedraggled. Everything in the Chaparral had thorns. Struggling through the undergrowth was battle but a worthwhile one, for when the last vine let go and the last thorn had broken off in our flesh, we found ourselves suddenly in a new dimension of sparkling white sand. Grass lay down a carpet between a line of alder trees that arched over the sandy lane formed by the dry river bed. This was our yellow brick road and we followed it in silent awe, as excited as Dorothy and Toto. Could Eden have been sweeter?
We soon broke out of the tunnel of green and found ourselves in an amphitheater of raw stone surrounding a cove in the river. The dry river turned to avoid a wall of granite and angled out through the bay to the river. Below us the river banks spread to allow the river to roam back and forth through channels of sand and gravel. Above us, the still water ran slow through a deep cleft in the bedrock. The deep pools looked like a string of pearls from the cliff tops while on both sides ledges formed platforms from which to dive without fear of breaking your head. From our camp we could clamber up the steep banks to dive from ten, twenty, even fifty feet--into the deep blue-green water.
Hot and sweaty, we wasted no time in dropping our packs. We striped as we ran toward the water, leaving a trail of shoes, socks, shorts, and shirts. Nellie waded in, while I ran out over the gravel and made a shallow racing dive, scooping gravel with my nose in the process. Ouch, and I couldn't let my pain show or Nellie would never have let me live it down.