![GHAWG-- God's Hog: A Watchful Guardian-- LeoThreads Zapfic Entries 320-327](https://images.ecency.com/DQmYhyQV9DgRQoT51JvvL7JJf1bJUfVCQTX2Bjt9CYuzG6f/ghawg_320_327.png) Read the Zapfic serial #GHAWG on LeoThreads to follow the transformation of a courier into a Harley-riding tool of God. ## 🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️ ^{Cover image is a screen capture of LeoThreads edited with MS Paint} ## 🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️ ## TL;DR ● What is GHAWG? ● Zapfic Entries 320-327 3️⃣2️⃣0️⃣ [2024-January-06 00:02:24](https://inleo.io/@magnacarta/re-magnacarta-3biv9ttrc) 3️⃣2️⃣1️⃣ [2024-January-07 00:04:54](https://inleo.io/@magnacarta/re-magnacarta-lu49xsps) 3️⃣2️⃣2️⃣ [2024-January-08 00:01:06](https://inleo.io/@magnacarta/re-magnacarta-2lb3nzjxe) 3️⃣2️⃣3️⃣ [2024-January-09 00:01:12](https://inleo.io/@magnacarta/re-magnacarta-wa53qsnv) 3️⃣2️⃣4️⃣ [2024-January-10 12:25:54](https://inleo.io/@magnacarta/re-magnacarta-niuaryg1) 3️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ [2024-January-11 00:10:00](https://inleo.io/@magnacarta/re-magnacarta-2xddcyuki) 3️⃣2️⃣6️⃣ [2024-January-12 00:10:12](https://inleo.io/@magnacarta/re-magnacarta-37rkj1yqw) 3️⃣2️⃣7️⃣ [2024-January-13 00:13:27](https://inleo.io/@magnacarta/re-magnacarta-agkdcggc) ● Story Arc So Far ● Next Week (2024-February-16) ● Zapfic Entries 328-340 ● At LeoThreads ● GHAWG Navigation ## 0️⃣ 1️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣ 4️⃣ 5️⃣ 6️⃣ 7️⃣ 8️⃣ 9️⃣ ## What Is GHAWG? #GHAWG is short for "God's Hog: A Watchful Guardian." This fictional story tells how David Guardia, a courier and [business](https://leofinance.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-business) owner from Bayonne, New Jersey, US moved into the next phase of his life after spending the final ten years of his ailing father's life helping him. More details can be found in the [first post of this weekly recap](https://leofinance.io/posts/magnacarta/ghawg-god-s-hog-a-watchful-guardian-leothreads-zapfic-entries-1-7-plus-introduction). ## 🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️ ## Zapfic Entries 320-327 ### 3️⃣2️⃣0️⃣ [2024-January-06 00:02:24](https://inleo.io/@magnacarta/re-magnacarta-3biv9ttrc) | As we mounted our bikes, Lindsay took time to thank Rhonda for the temporary shift in riding arrangements.

"Remember, Lindsay," began Rhonda, "That Victory's yours now. You're just letting me borrow it until you want it back." | | --- | | 🏍️ At the level of text, this zapfic entry is straightforward: Rhonda Bella Guardia gifted to Lindsay Etxeberria her Victory motorcycle. Out of the group known as Our Heroes, of which Lindsay herself joined when she abandoned her far-left activist life in Portland, Oregon, US, only Lindsay didn't have a motorcycle. In giving Lindsay her motorcycle Rhonda was going to be the rider without one; however, she would be riding with her husband, David Guardia, on his Harley-Davidson tri-cycle. Given the change in plans, Rhonda continues riding the Victory motorcycle until Sanjay Rampersad ends his ride in Chapel Hill at the University of North Carolina.

🏍️ At the level of subtext, Rhonda is letting Lindsay know that she will be victorious in the new phase of her life. At this point for Lindsay, her life is a clean slate, and full of possibility. What she will do remains to be determined, but as David himself-- and before him John Connor-- had said, her fate is what she makes. | --- ### 3️⃣2️⃣1️⃣ [2024-January-07 00:04:54](https://inleo.io/@magnacarta/re-magnacarta-lu49xsps) | Lionel found us good room rates about a mile shy of Dana Point. The Brothers Marchenko (Hank & Frank) had a room. The Kids (Lindsay Etxeberria, Sanjay Rampersad, and Lionel Odunsi) had theirs. Rhonda Bella Guardia & I had ours.

^{(hyperlinks added)} | | --- | | 🏍️ One of Lionel's roles with Our Heroes is to find lodging whenever possible. Although he was a classmate of Sanjay Rampersad's at UNC, Lionel was a business major. So it made sense that this task would fall to him. | --- ### 3️⃣2️⃣2️⃣ [2024-January-08 00:01:06](https://inleo.io/@magnacarta/re-magnacarta-2lb3nzjxe) | Back in road gear, we took a ride on the world famous ferris wheel at Santa Monica Pier. Coincidentally, that's also where the western terminus of Route 66 is located. We needed to research the path using modern road numbering. | | --- | | 🏍️ The Interstate Highway System (also known as the Eisenhower Interstate System; which itself is short for Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways) was born on 1956-June-29 when the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 was signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Due to its more efficient layout and design, the Interstate Highway System was meant to replace the existing United States Numbered Highway System. As a result of this transition from the USNHS to the IHS, many roads of the USNHS were either incorporated into the IHS or replaced altogether. Among the roads replaced by the IHS was the fabled and legendary Route 66 of song and television.

It's for this reason that Our Heroes had a hard time figuring out how to retrace Route 66 for the ride east. That's why GHAWG (including Rat Bike refers to this retraced path as Old Route 66. | --- ### 3️⃣2️⃣3️⃣ [2024-January-09 00:01:12](https://inleo.io/@magnacarta/re-magnacarta-wa53qsnv) | We split up to handle personal errands. Rhonda & I decided to go to a motorcycle apparel shop. When we saw jumpsuits, we looked at each other and had the same idea. Rhonda left wearing a tan jumpsuit. Mine was safety yellow. | | --- | | 🏍️ This is the first time we see David and Rhonda Bella Guardia make a financial decision as husband and wife. In this case, it involves negative cash flow since money is being spent on consumer goods and not on an investment or a business expense. They'll be dealing with cash flow issues later after they end David's Epic Ride in Iowa and return to earning their daily bread in the sequel zapfic series code-named Blue Lion. | --- ### 3️⃣2️⃣4️⃣ [2024-January-10 12:25:54](https://inleo.io/@magnacarta/re-magnacarta-niuaryg1) | During a break, Rhonda asked me if I had any pics from my ride to STURGIS, pre-Iowa. After I showed her what I had, she said "That's it?"

"That part of my ride was just one big blur."

"This part won't be," she said, winking. | | --- | | 🏍️ Rhonda Bella Guardia may have been an independent trucker, but she was in the habit of documenting her drives along the highways and byways of North America; there was so much to see when she was on the road. David Guardia, on the other hand, had been limited to riding his motorcycle through the five boroughs of New York City as well as the towns contained within Hudson County (which included Hoboken, Union City, Jersey City, and his hometown of Bayonne). Although both he and Rhonda were on the clock making deliveries, Rhonda had more time to get hers done while David was always under the gun. Their jobs had informed their attitudes toward sight-seeing and memorializing their trips.

🏍️ When David left Bayonne, there wasn't much for him to see; nothing had caught his eye worthy of being photographed. Once he left behind the iconic NYC skyline, there wasn't anything else iconic to see until he rached major cities such as Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US and Cleveland, Ohio, US. Weather could have also been a factor explaining his lack of digital photographs for the early stages of his Epic Ride. | --- ### 3️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ [2024-January-11 00:10:00](https://inleo.io/@magnacarta/re-magnacarta-2xddcyuki) | After she laughed at my lack of pics from early in my ride, Rhonda switched to a more serious topic.

"After we return to Iowa, how about you become my co-pilot?"

"I thought you left eveything behind."

"I still have my truck." | | --- | | 🏍️ Although Rhonda Bella (as she was known then) was ready to leave everything behind, she may have been at the stage where she needed to tie up loose ends. One of these loose ends would have been finding a buyer for her truck, and her truck was her business. Now that she is Rhonda Bella Guardia, she is glad to still have possession of her truck.| --- ### 3️⃣2️⃣6️⃣ [2024-January-12 00:10:12](https://inleo.io/@magnacarta/re-magnacarta-37rkj1yqw) | "Where you go, I go," I told Rhonda, with a smile.

"If you don't mind living out of a cab for a while, we can make it work."

"Free rent's great. We just pay for diesel & parking."

"Great. You'll look great in hot pink, too." | | --- | | 🏍️ With Rhonda Bella having been an independent long-haul trucker, she needed a truck which doubled as her home on the road. It may have been smaller than even one of those tiny houses people make videos about, but it was comfortable enough for her needs. Given this opportunity to begin his shared life with Rhonda, he didn't hesitate to accept her housing offer. | --- ### 3️⃣2️⃣7️⃣ [2024-January-13 00:13:27](https://inleo.io/@magnacarta/re-magnacarta-agkdcggc) | I felt myself trying to arch an eyebrow like Mister Spock; I failed. "Company colors, Rhonda Bella Logistics."

"Gotcha. OK."

"You'll be my executive assistant until you get your own gig going.

"Hank & Frank have been outbid." | | --- | | 🏍️ For a while longer, Rhonda Bella Guardia would continue as an independent trucker and sole proprietor of her business (Rhonda Bella Logistics). She can make enough long-haul deliveries to be able to support David. So at least for a while Rhonda would be trucking for two. | ## 🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️ ## Next Week (2024-February-16) ### Zapfic Entries 328-340 Our Heroes begin the ride east in earnest. After finally getting out of Los Angeles, California, US, they make an overnight stop in San Bernardino, California, US. Before David and Rhonda Bella Guardia can resume their roles as The Newlyweds, David finds himself on the spiritual plane meeting with the uncanny Manny Rey. ### At LeoThreads Our Heroes are riding through Arizona. Along the way David and Rhonda Bella Guardia take time to visit a Roman Catholic church in order to give thanks and make their intentions known to The Lord before they resume riding east through Arizona. --- NOW AVAILABLE! -- [GHAWG, Uninterrupted](https://inleo.io/@magnacarta/ghawg-uninterrupted-act-1) for those who want to binge-read the daily zapfic serial one Act (or Interlude) at a time. ALSO AVAILABLE! -- [The GHAWG Diaries](https://inleo.io/@magnacarta/the-ghawg-diaries-part-1) for those who want to witness the formation of The GHAWG Universe and how it's taking place. Published on Mondays when there is no GHAWG, Uninterrupted post (or, for that matter, any other post). PLUS! -- [GHAWG Behind the Scenes](https://inleo.io/@magnacarta/ghawg-behind-the-scenes-the) to see how elements of The GHAWG Universe take shape, from graphics to spreadsheets and other research. Included is a subseries called "Fun with Maps" showing the interesting things I find as I map out the David Guardia's ride. Curently "Fun with Maps" is at South Bend, Indiana, US. *** Catch the latest zapfic entries for GHAWG at LeoThreads. Get caught up with GHAWG with these weekly summaries at InLeo. ## 🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️ ## GHAWG Navigation To find other weekly summary posts such as this one-- or to read the serial without annotated commentary-- use the post [GHAWGnav: Navigating The GHAWG Universe](https://inleo.io/@magnacarta/ghawgnav-navigating-the-ghawg-universe). ## 🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️ That's it for this Weekly Summary. I'm ![@magnacarta (graphic-signature made by @ahmadmanga)](https://images.ecency.com/DQmPJR89scZhixzUS4MGgsizhi3CGyZzPm9ti79qf4Yk1Wh/mc_signature_by_ahmadmanga.png)^[!!] Thanks for your time and for reading #GHAWG, LeoThreads at InLeo's first daily zapfic serial. Give the post an upvote or a reblog if you liked it. Feedback is welcome. Until next time! --- [!!] -- signature graphic was made by @ahmadmanga Posted Using [InLeo Alpha](https://inleo.io/@magnacarta/ghawg-gods-hog-a-watchful-guardian-leothreads-zapfic-entries-320327)

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