Well, I guess some of you know that we've been travelling throughout the western half of America this summer. We're visiting family and friends, touring national parks, and seeing the sights along the path.
And things are going swell, but it has been really hot, record setting hot most of the time. It all began as we left SoCal and it has been heating up as we went on. Our route took us from the beaches of San Diego, into the Colorado River Valley and through the Painted Desert and the Petrified Forrest before climbing grades into the Phoenix area. Then though through the plateau and into Albuquerque before north into the Denver area just in time to be amid the huge fires between Colorado Springs and Loveland.
Those terrible fires choked our every breath and they destroyed nearly 1000 homes throughout Colorado and New Mexico. Temperatures well over 100 degrees, afternoon winds and ultra-low humidity kept things going, seemingly forever. Event periodic afternoon thunderstorms couldn't break the spell.
But visiting the family was wonderful, and historical things happened. Our oldest grand daughter obtained her driving permit, a six year old was a fury on the two wheeler we got her a year ago, our four year old grand son rode his bike for the first time without training wheels, while his sister got a new pink bike with training wheels, handle bar tassels wheels and a basket, and the youngest learned to sit up right before our eyes. A zoo visit, camping, swimming and fishing made fond memories that will last a lifetime.
Then across the cornfields east through America's heartland, Nebraska and Iowa, then America's troubled land of Illinois where Obama began his trauma, and over to Indiana.
Now we are sweltering in humidity, with record heat into the 100's. Lots more to do here and there before returning west in a week or two.
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