He’d been working for them the past six years, riding the boom wave big-time, and cashing in on some serious bank. Oil drilling was booming in his little town of Dickinson, North Dakota, and he’d been lucky enough to get a job with EOR-Environmental Oil Refinery. Just like it had been last week and the week before that. Chapter OneĪFTER FORTY hours of straight time, twenty-two hours of time and a half, and thirteen hours of double time, Clayton Phillips’s paycheck was sweet. Without them, this story may never have been told. States of Love: Stories of romance that span every corner of the United States.įor all those who have struggled and kept on dreaming. But when they go from all the conveniences of the modern world to outhouses, solar power, a shoestring budget, and more mosquitos than they ever thought possible, will they find there’s such a thing as too much time together? They’re going off the grid and fixing up an old cabin so they can be self-sufficient. What they’ve always wanted is to be together and have time to enjoy it, so they follow their hearts. Should they find comparable work somewhere else, or is it time to throw caution to the wind and go after their goal-years earlier than they intended? The pay is good, but is it a fair trade for never seeing each other? The point becomes moot when the company folds, like so many others, and the couple is left with a difficult choice. Clay and Elliott are working toward a dream-working sixty-hour weeks for one of the oil companies that recently sprung up in North Dakota.
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