Probably the most interesting thing of this series is the mix of adventures on Indiana Jones style and the home-made apple pie feelings of the trips by truck. Plus there is a nice mismatch on the chosen role play: Ian, the wanna-be Indiana Jones, is more a next door simple guy, glasses and nerd style shirt included; Mac, the truck driver, is a former Army officer with a Bruce Willis hero type attitude.

But these two different men met and fell in love, and so now they have to find a way to reconcile their lives. At the end of the first book everything seemed easy, they are living in the same state if not in the same city, and Mac is his own boss and so he can free time to go and visit Ian. But an easy plan is not easy to respect and so now Ian and Mac realized that actually they have not so much time to stay together and that when they are, they spend more time in regretting the time they lost than enjoying what they have.

There is also an element of age difference: Mac is, more or less, arrived, or at least in the descendent phase of his career, he is arrived in a moment when career is not exactly first in mind; Ian instead has just started his academic career, he has to invest a lot in it, above all on a time consuming factor. Mac understands that, if he asks now to Ian to renounce to it, they have too many years in front of them when Ian will regret to have done so.

I think the author wanted to tell both side of the story, and so basically this time we have both type of adventure: the “on the road” type, told from Mac’s point of view, and the “on the field” one, the archeological mission to discover the Lost Temple in Belize. This is not a long book, more or less 100 pages, and so both adventures are outlined but nor dug in details and the resolutions is pretty quick: in a way, I felt like it was more important to define the balance between Ian and Mac to build a steady relationship, than to read about these adventures.

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