“March fourth” is a warning as she leaves, travelling from Baja, Mexico to Los Ceretos, through La Paz to travel to San Diego with a straggler from Germany named Katia. Katia does not like Karla’s dogs, but they needed each other as road trip companions. They pull into Jesus Maria as they run out of gasoline, spending too much money on gasoline. Making their way onward, they make a human connection that culminates in an incident at the Mexican border.

Free from jail at 16, Stephanie faces a corrupt system and overcomes an inept foster parent.

Jim buys an Indian sidecar during the Sturgis bike rally. He borrows Greg’s pickup truck to go pick up the sidecar. He is followed several times along the way by police officers.

Joyce talks her mother into buying her a nice pair of shoes, which she loses -- allegedly in a snowbank.

Nate Biehl takes risks. He travels with some buddies to Grreat Falls, MT from Missoula, MT at the age of 18. There are women. There is booze. And there is a life changing drag race.

Mullet sporting middle aged men lay their hands on a young Susan Maruca, the captain of the Recreational Mathematics team, in an effort for her to experience the intertwining oneness of everything. This is the beginning of Susan’s journey of curiosity that will guide her entire life.