Hack, Jonny M., and Bro Joe dined with their girly-girl friend Penelope last night, who was both fascinated and appalled as Joe held court with tales of his outdoorsman adventures. Penny likened Joe to Indiana Jones as he told of the many unprepared tourists he’d encountered on treacherous mountain trails who had plunged to their deaths, while a less-impressed Jonny compared him to the old codger Walter Huston played in Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Hack soaked it all up and cranked out this adventure novel which casts Joe more as the grizzled old goat that Jonny described, although he does save the day when the over-their-heads trio brings the wrong kind of wine to pair with the salmon croquettes in their picnic basket and Mountain Joe comes to their rescue with with a bottle of rosé Cava that he had in his backpack.
