We were about to get a little depressed after three days without seeing any lights.

And they were solid blacked out when we got started. Even their transmission lines were down.

We packed up our stuff that night and spent their rest of the time we were there sleeping in their garage.

That's in Marion County, near Guin.

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow.

We read (the phrase) in the forward, where it talked about speakeasies. We didn't want a bar and grill at the end of the name, and we kept coming to that (phrase).