It's Hot Out Herrrre!!

In the last three days I have driven nearly 1200 miles, from Los Angeles, CA through Barstow, CA to Williams, AZ (near Grand Canyon, AZ) and from Gallup, NM to Las Cruces, NM via Albuquerque, NM.

Here are some observations. (1) The countryside is beautiful! (2) It's hella hot. (3) These are big, big states. (4) 65 mph speed limits are impractical. When one is driving 400 miles in one day, on a 4-lane highway (2-lanes each way) with one or two hundred mile perfectly straight stretches with almost no traffic, 65 miles an hour simply doesn't cut it.