The road ahead twisted like a series of slithering serpents, head to tail, S-shaped, but sharper in their turns. Sheets of rain smashed against the windshield making it almost impossible to prepare for the treacherous curves ahead. The unpaved and loose-stone surface splayed out to deep and unwelcoming ditches on either side. Numerous times their high-speed, white knuckled chase caused them to fishtail across the water swollen surface. Tall oak and maple crowded both sides of this serpentine route like m...