"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:q0G2c.77814$ko6.414340@attbi_s02...
Come to Arizona in July...we'll teach you what hell is really like.

Back in our pre-kid days, we did our "motorcycle trip of a lifetime" -- a
ride from Wisconsin to California and back, camping all the way.

Unfortunately, I changed jobs mid-way into our planning, which cut my
vacation time from 3 weeks to 2 weeks. In order to make the trip work, we
had to shave a week off -- which meant shipping our motorcycle to an
aunt's
house in Phoenix, and starting from there.

When we departed Phoenix, in late June, I thought I was riding on the
surface of Venus. That place was the dirtiest, hottest, ugliest, most
desolate place I'd ever seen.

And that was the nice part of town.

I couldn't believe there were a million
people living in that hell-hole. (Of course, since then I've seen Phoenix
at its best, in winter. :-)

Five days later, we were riding in snow in Yellowstone...

Day before yesterday it was 62...today it's 82. Norma right now is about 78,
but we've had only about six or seven days above normal since November.

I've been running between Denver and Phoenix since October and can't get my
sinus' cleared.