Chapter 39. Epilog:
Two years after I moved from Tangier to the airport this is what was going on with the airport gang:
Jen: she received a card from the Bustamante family with news that Octavio passed away (at home in bed in his sleep) at age 96 and the family wanted her to attend the private memorial service.
They now grow grapes on 310 acres of land in central Spain in the mountains and employ 19 local people. They bottle and sell their own label of red and white wines in stores across Spain and France, one of their labels sells for $40 a bottle. The oldest of the brothers, Hadi Hassan is the company president, the number two brother Zaki Hassan is the VP and manages the actual growing/harvesting work, and the youngest brother Naji Hassan runs bottling, sales, and distribution. Naji left the company for several years to go to college to attain a Master's of Business degree at Imperial College in London. He now speaks fluent Spanish, Arabic, and English. They are going to invest in a glass bottle manufacturing company near Madrid next year.
While he was in college Naji met a girl and they fell in love and got married, she earned a doctorate in botany and works at the vineyard to help them stay one step ahead of grape vine fungal diseases. All three brothers are married and combined have fourteen children, all of them work at the vineyard except the baby who is still in diapers, but spends hours daily in a playpen between the trellised rows of vines.
Jen still has 25 years to go until she retires but she loves her job and has agreed to take on France as her responsibility starting next year, 2020. Jen and Alex get together for about 2-3 weeks a year and she finally let Alex photograph her naked but not her face. Jen also purchased the home she rented from the owners when they moved to assisted living. Jen and Alex never got married.
Alex: Two years after Alex retired from the State Department the Tangier office was closed due to a downturn in tourism, and the CIA Bouncing Buoy devices in and around the Strait of Gibraltar were replaced by geostationary satellite based technology that can see through clouds and fog, day and night.
After much deliberation Alex cancelled plans to buy land halfway between Ain Lahcen and the airport. Eighteen months after moving to the airport he purchased a newer (1998) French-built two-seat, propeller aircraft that runs regular automotive gasoline and has big balloon tires and can take off and land on about 500 feet of flat ground. On the weekends he likes to fly along the Atlantic coast of Morocco and sight see. His airplane is designed to land and take off from soft sandy beaches so he is always hunting for nice places to land for a private picnic. Sometimes he can talk Dan into being the co-pilot. Dan said his airplane is like a wealthy man's bass boat, it's all show and no-go, his antique Bi-plane is faster and more maneuverable.
One of their favorite places for a day at the beach is called Black Beach which is about 40 miles north of Rabat on the Atlantic coast, the nearest town (search for it on gmaps) has a long name but is called: `Ouled Abdellah El Bahira,' which is a small town on the A2 coastal highway. Regardless of the tides he can land on the beach and they can surf, swim, or fish and they've never run into another human on that stretch of beach. The flight 87 miles each way from Danport, it takes about 40 minutes depending on the wind.
"We always fly there in my plane because it has balloon tires which are designed for beach landings." They pack a cooler with cold cut hoagies and plenty of water, a rifle and pistol, and some first aid stuff, a body board or two for playing in the water, lots of sun screen, towels, and a tent if they decide to spend the night. You have to be very careful to watch for sharks, which is most of the reason for the handgun and the sat phone.
Of course on every trip to the beach Alex extracts several loads from Dan, as many as he can produce.
Alex plans on building a house similar to Dan's and is working toward purchasing the corner lot from the airport, it's about three acres. His barn is done which is where he parks his airplane. He installed a 12' satellite dish and is able to even receive some English programming from the eastern most American satellites.
Samir: still lives in Dan's house at the airport. Samir is still teaching Dan basic Arabic and he now can write the alphabet and can speak a few hundred words. They mounted a large dry erase board on the living room wall and he gives Dan Arabic lessons. They started with learning the alphabet and classifier signs then went on to learn a work related vocabulary. Samir laughed at him because he said it sounds funny hearing Arabic words poorly spoken with a Houston accent.
Samir still has his one friend (Karam) he's known since high school and he still refuses to discuss sex but everyone thinks he's a bottom. When I asked him once what his long term plans were Samir said he lived one day at a time and had no plans for the future. He intended to continue working in the control tower and has no plans to attend night school to advance his education. He still basically owns nothing except the clothes on his back and his dirt bike. And even now at age 22 he still has no feelings about being seen naked by anyone.
And speaking of clothes, one time last year I was visiting Dan and Samir was not home. We looked in his bedroom closet and saw he owns eight Djellabas and one pair of blue jeans, one nice long sleeve button down dress shirt, one pair of black dress slacks, one T-shirt, and two pairs of sandals made from old car tires with replaceable leather straps, and one pair of Vans Atwood sneakers.
The Danville airport: has grown, Dan took on a partner (from Spain) and they widened the runway right away. The airport was closed for twenty two days last January. The 1939 runway was 30 feet wide but now is 54 feet wide, which allows them to land much larger airplanes, many twin engine planes, and even some three and four engine cargo planes like the JU-52. They added twelve feet of concrete road bed to both sides of the original 1939 runway bed, re-paved, and re-painted it with standardized runway markings and added numbers. The new wider runway is now marked with a large `7' to signify it is heading toward 70 degrees. It had to be approved by the state aviation authority but we painted it before they approved. The east end of the runway has a white X painted on the asphalt.
After the runway was re-opened they gained dozens of new customers, and renters. Many executives from the car factories in Tangier have private twin-engine airplanes they now store at Danport. One of them plans to build a covered airplane storage structure like a carport for airplanes. The main problem is most airplanes have to be pulled backwards, but the lightweight ones (like mine) can be pushed around by hand.
They have also become a WW2 museum with the installation of barbed wire, fox holes and trenches with nine welded steel-frame human shaped sculptures they can dress in replica German soldier uniforms to make them look like poised action figures, except they're all life size. They have two mobile 20mm anti-aircraft gun replicas, a German mobile radar replica, a German jeep called the Kubelwagen (which was the inspiration for the VW Thing), and a German troop hauling cargo truck like the American 2.5 ton cargo hauler. Someone in England donated an actual Dutch army barracks kit, which is a standard 2-story wood structure that was used throughout Europe and the USA (like the ones seen on Fort Knox in the 1964 James Bond movie: Goldfinger), the closest they could come to having an actual German barracks building. They cleaned up the original barracks site and built a new foundation on top of the fully intact German concrete foundation and erected the replica directly on top of the original. The new barracks building is empty inside, unfinished and unpainted so it's only there for looks. So part of the tarmac area looks almost the same as it did in 1942. They copied the overall color scheme and appearance for the museum based on the American TV show called Hogan's Heroes.
The outdoors shots of Stalag 13 on Hogan's Heroes were filmed at the RKO '40 acres' backlot which is 100% gone now but was near downtown Culver City California, the property was bordered by: Higuera Street, Hayden Place, and Ballona Creek.
They erected a wire fence topped by three rows of barbed wire for looks but it also keeps people at the Dronefest events from walking onto the tarmac. All the German replica stuff is confined to the area between the refueling pads exit taxiway and the Dronefest park area. It starts at the German hangar and extends all the way to the barracks building. It's a strip of land about 60 feet wide and 2000 feet long. Dan says he wants to add one more JU-52 and park it in the hangar, then he will take parts from both planes to make one cosmetically intact for people to walk inside a real German cargo plane.
The JU-52 is a tail dragger, so when you enter the plane via the rear left-side cargo door (same door the paratroopers dove out) you walk up a steep floor to another door on the right side and climb down the stairs to the floor. Very few Americans today remember when they boarded passenger planes outside via steps at the rear door and had a steep walk to get to the front seats, or visa-versa if the plane loaded at the front.
They do not charge admission but during certain hours people are welcome to come onto the tarmac and tour the facility. They now get school bus loads of children from all over northern Morocco coming to see the museum. The plan is to obtain some kind of vehicle to load people into to tour the facility but keep them confined to the transport. Dan is considering installing a tiny steam locomotive railroad with passenger cars to transport people around the facility. The kind of miniature railroad built for amusement parks in the USA. Until then he has a flat bed hay trailer to haul school children around the displays behind his truck. He said the bad part is when he's hauling a trailer loaded with 30 little school children around the airport most operations on the ground have to stop for nearly an hour.
The drone racing league renewed their contract to stay at the current location for two more years but doubled the parking lot, Dan runs a hot dog cart and usually makes about two thousand Euros per show. He also purchased soda vending machines (one sells beer) and built a covered outdoor vending area. All the drinks sold come in returnable 16 ounce bottles with pry-off caps. The events became so popular the members created something like a flea market held in the parking area that is almost more popular than the show itself.
During their third year of operation they formed a volunteer committee on adding aids to pilots to help locate the airport. Danport is unusually difficult to see on the local terrain because the soil, vegetation, and asphalt are all a similar shade of dark gray/green, and black. In this era as new technology is always appearing in the trade journals there are a lot of used systems available and grants for small airports to purchase and install those used systems. The group agreed on one best system to help pilots locate the runway from as far as 20 miles out, it's called REIL or Runway End Identifier Lights (see Wikipedia).
There are two small strobe-like fixtures mounted on the ground that flash about twice a second and are mostly visible on or near the glideslope of the runway. They are highly visible day and night and make the end of the runway stand out, even in marginal weather. Plus they are low cost and very reliable, easily repaired and come with solar charging and a 12V DC battery pack. Actually they use LEDs with lenses instead of strobe tubes. They purchased a used system from a small rural airport in Maine and installed them by hand. Two housings each about the size of a blender, threaded on top of a one inch diameter steel pipe anchored in concrete, one unit near each western corner of the landing zone box.
Someone also donated a 1200 gallon steel tank on a trailer that can be towed by any vehicle in case of a fire, but so far there have been no airplane crashes. It uses a 5hp lawnmower engine to pressurize the tank and blow the water out two one inch hoses. It sits beside the outhouse full of water, ready to hitch and go anywhere in the neighborhood.
Three years after opening the airport has five full-time employees, Dan is one of them. He hired a CPA in town to do payroll except he pays Samir in cash out of his pocket, since Sam has become like family to Dan, like the son he never had. Samir treats Dan as if he was his father, but calls him Daniel in his Arabic accent. It sounds like he is saying: don-YELL.
Inside the ATC building on the ground floor they built a wall to divide it in half and built office space (with air conditioning) for the business manager but Samir still answers the phone upstairs in the control tower. After they hired an actual employee they had to enclose the bathroom and install a sink and a door with a lock, but it has no exhaust fan. Samir was upset that he had to share the building which he had all to himself for nearly four years. People working in the office use the front door, Samir uses the side door (which is labeled Control Tower). They made a small parking area on the runway side of the ATC building. The punch card timeclock for the employees is inside the German hangar. And every building has three very large fire extinguishers and bottled water coolers since the airport has no running water and never will. Since the toilet was installed they have never run out of rain water to flush the bowl but they came close a few times.
And they built two weather proof shelters near Point Alpha and Point Bravo to control the flow of airplanes onto the various re-fueling and servicing pads. As of today they have eight pads but four of them are private. And the fuel truck is retired since they get AV gas delivered by 18-wheel tanker now. The old fuel truck was painted German military colors and added to the museum because it looks old to civilians.
Luis: graduated from college on-time and now flies commercial cargo jet routes over Europe and northern Africa. His hair is now cut short and he looks handsome in his starched pilot's uniform. He was awarded New Pilot of the Year by an air cargo industry magazine, and he had his photo on the cover at the controls of a 777 cargo jet on final approach to Madrid. He has also been hired several times by a modeling agency to be the clothing model for men's swimwear and underwear. He still lives at his parent's house, when he's home. Luis has also been featured in TV ads for expedited air freight service between Madrid and New Delhi India, but he never had a speaking role. Now he has a small apartment he rents in New Delhi, India.
Every week he flies that route with a stop in Cairo. He makes the round trip once a week and is off work the rest of the week. He flies from Madrid to Cairo and has three hours off while they move cargo around then he flies to New Delhi and has 12-48 hours off. A day or two later he makes the same route in the other direction and once he lands back in Madrid he is off the rest of the week. He emailed me a copy of his 30 second TV commercial in Spanish and some language in India. His voice is dubbed over for the Indian version. But I like to picture him inspecting the airliner, walking around beside the giant airplane tires with no clothes on. He's almost 30 now and says he is still naturally hairless under his shirt.
Dan: He considered selling the airport and moving back to Texas for a couple years but had a change of heart and decided to stay forever in Morocco. There is no Social Security in Morocco so he has to stash cash to finance his own insurance and living costs.
He met and had good times with a few of the women he met at the 12-Step meetings, but none of them turned into long term relationships, Dan is after all married to the airport and he really does not have a personality that is great for being married to, because he is too internally focused and forgets to take care of (neglects) his closest relationships. Some people say that with women he becomes bored easily. I think he is like most guys and thinks bringing home a decent paycheck every week is proof of his affection and fills his duty as a spouse. That might have worked in 1965 but not so much in 2019!
He is physically very active and even in his early 40s he remained thin and in very excellent physical condition. The number of times I could make him come in one evening decreased around his 40th birthday but he still has one of the most perfectly shaped boners I have ever had in my hand or mouth. After he turned 40 he could no longer lie in bed on his back, and wank himself and squirt semen onto the wall above his pillow, but he still gets it on his face.
Dan still lets me trim him with the cordless, I invite him over for dinner twice a month and while the charcoals heat up I can easily trim him outside in a few minutes.
At his home on the airport he built a nice patio by his front door. He moved his picnic table there and added a nice large umbrella and lawn chairs. He now has a homemade grille with a brick oven that is perfect for pizza or bread baking. He planted several trees for shade and has a large ice chest for parties. He also paved a walkway from the patio to the side door of the ATC building so Samir can walk to work barefoot (Samir and Dan are both homebodies).
Dan has a propane outdoor heater for parties in January when it can get down into the low 40s at night and on hot summer nights he has a fan with a built-in mister. Daytime highs during the summer can reach the low 90s with a very high humidity. November to February is the rainy season. Ocean water temperature rarely gets above 75 degrees F on either coast.
We still have our private times together and he still tells me I can have him anytime I want and occasionally I take him up on that offer, probably once or twice a month. One evening when we were outside on his patio under the stars, drinking and talking he told me he might sell the airport after he turns 55 and build a retail store in town with an apartment on the second floor and maybe sell fine foods, wine, snacks to the locals after he sells his share of the airport to his partner. He might try to import fine food from all over Europe, like caviar, smoked canned fish, wine, oils, and ethnic foods from countries like Germany, Norway, Ireland, Belgium, Poland, and Russia.
For his 40th birthday we had a party on his patio on an evening when Samir was gone somewhere on the dirt bike. We got steaks, baking potatoes, and a 12-pack of a Belgian IPA beer. After eating I took off my clothes and lubed my ass and positioned myself on the picnic table and he fucked me hard for about twenty minutes and came all over my back. About 30 minutes later I had him stand in front of me and I blew him and he came again down my throat but I kept his last drops in my mouth so I could taste him.
He got on his knees and wanked me as I sat on the bench with my legs spread as wide as they go. I spurt on him, droplets landed all over his thighs, stomach, and chest.
He stepped back lit only by the moon overhead, he had that relaxed-satisfied smile on his face and a long string of semen swaying off the head of his dick, he let me snap a few photos of his body like that. The pictures did not include how we showered each other outside with the garden hose afterward. In my heart seeing him sprinkled all over with my semen symbolized how well I captured Daniel.
The pictures say a lot about him being satisfied: belly full of steak and balls drained of tadpoles. That smile on his face was unmistakable, he was truly happy, and that makes me happy too.
The End.
Thanks for reading.
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