Vyl left his barren homestand 

In the hills-

Badlands of Alameda County-

Morgan Hill Road

To Corral Hollow

Old low grade coal mines

K-OLA

tiny seashells dug up and spread 

on the grasslands

"There used to be a town over there, even had a school for the kids"

Gone. 

Pottery.

Carnegie. 

Made bricks and artifices for buildings in Oakland where Jack London lived after his step dad crapped out farming in the Livermore valley.

Too hot and dry.

Now they run motorcycles over the hills and leave black tracks everwhere. 

Like scars on the hills. 

Vyl drove on 

"Maybe I'll see what's going on in Turlock today"