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Leo told me ere headed to a place an hour south-east of Cody’s ranch, along the California-Nevada border, called the Amedee Army Airfield As we drove, I wondered if Amedee was Indian for end of the world, because the area was hands down the most desolate place I had ever seen in my life On both sides of the faded two-lane blacktop was nothing but ht and blue, it hurt my head

“Is this where they tested the atom bomb?” I asked as we slowed and turned onto a dirt road

“No, sir I believe that was down in New Mexico,” Leo said from behind his aviator shades

“I knew I should have

We slowed and stopped about five ht for the military airport that was our destination, but there was nothing No planes, no control tower, no buildings There was nothing but more desert

“Uht I was supposed to catch a plane,” I said, scanning the bleak landscape

The young agents looked at each other, s

“You’re about to,” Agent McCarthy said, opening the door

“But where’s the … you know, buildings and TSA gropers and everything?” I asked, stepping out and spotting for the first time the macadam runway in front of us

“That’s at an airport,” the female fed explained as she checked her watch “This is an airfield”

“Aha,” I said, pretending like that explained so

When I turned to her partner for clarification, he was pointing up at the sky

“Here comes your ride now,” Leo said

Far in the distance to the east, a plane began to h unray, it looked sort of like a corporate jet

The plane made a wide turn to land from the west I was al oes after Cary Grant in North by Northwest