 The Road, June/July 2007
Day Thirteen: Wednesday, July 4
Hit The Road at Noon for the absolutely magnificent 300-mile trip to
Phoenix. I particularly like the rocks around Nothing, mileposts in
the 140s.
Crossing Boulder Dam was quicker than usual and there was very little
traffic the whole way. Fearful of a speeding citation, the car rarely
got above 80mph. It reported the outside temperature as 114 degrees
Farenheit almost all the way, 113 on arrival in Phoenix around 17:00
on a day that it had reached 117!
As expected, Lake Mead has very litle water in it. How's 'Vegas to
survive? Yet they keep on building, at least two casino/hotels in
progress and many housing developments.
My roommate arrived about ten minutes before I. We went to dinner and
had the good fortune to see the fireworks display although from a
sound distance of about three seconds.
Danced from about 22:30-02:30 followed by a while in a quite hot,
perhaps 105-degree, whirlpool.
This Frank Lloyd Wright hotel is lovely but the distances from one
place to another are great and walking in the sun is not pleasant.
Day Fourteen: Thursday, July 5
It's H O T out there!
Washed some clothes, hung them in the car, went for a snack with an
Argentina who lives in Palm Springs and my clothes were not just dry,
but almost too hot to touch when we returned.
Took a nap, something I do not do, before dancing from about
19:00-01:00, an early end for me but I wasn't giving very good dances.
Back to the whirlpool and this note.
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