after a while you come to a crossroads and turn right and then start climbing up into the mountains through a pass , and you climb and climb up the side of the hill past the brown grass hillsides and the tumbling rock walls , and then past a fort that was just fucking flattened by some big ass bomb in the war with a huge steel i-beam bent up out of the blasted roof toward the sky , and you can see inside some black things that might be bodies like road signs along the thruway , and you climb up into the mountains shifting and grinding the gears .