In 1976, I was twenty-five and was in the middle of my lost years. I had gotten divorced the year before and wasn’t sure what to do next. It was the Bicentennial Year of the birth of the United States, and I decided to travel to all forty-eight continental states. Greyhound Busline had a special deal that Summer for an unlimited pass for one price. I figured it would be a great way to get some perspective on life and possibly shake loose some direction for the future.

I had relatives and friends in strategic places all over the country I could couch surf with for a night to save on lodging. I was on the road for two months and did it all for about seven hundred bucks. Try that now! That would last you about two days these days, and the seventies were historically considered highly inflationary.

I even met one woman on the bus in Michigan and ended up staying the night at her house. We had a disastrous sexual encounter, but at least I got a free meal and a shower out of the deal. She had the decency not to kick me out on the street after I couldn’t perform. She did make sure I got the first bus out of town the next morning. The reality was, even at twenty-five, I was not very experienced sexually. I was raised in a very conservative, Christian household and had only had sex with my ex-wife up until then.

One of the visits I arranged on this trip was with Heather, my fifty-year-old former Sunday school teacher. She lived in North Carolina and worked for the church I was brought up in. She had been divorced ever since I knew her as a kid. Evidently, she had been ‘worldly’ and came back to the Lord in her early twenties after her divorce. I hadn’t seen her since I was a teenager, but I remember her being a fox even at forty! Heather had perfect breasts and a very sexy figure. I had written her about my trip plans, and she welcomed me with open arms to stay at her place for a few days. Those ‘few days’ ended up being some of the very best days of my life.

Heather met me at the bus station in downtown Raleigh. She still had it at fifty! I could not believe how sexy she looked in her sheer summer dress that showed off her awesome breasts and shapely tan legs. I instantly regained the crush I had on her when I was a kid! The twenty-five-year age difference between us melted in an instant.

“My, you certainly turned into a handsome young man!” Heather said with a smile, “I always thought you would; you were such a cute kid!”

“And might I add,” I replied, “you are as beautiful as ever, if not more so!