1) I thought I knew from hot weather after going to Morocco. But I didn't. Laughlin, Nevada and Phoeniz, Arizona... now that's some heat for you. Maybe air conditioning is a necessary evil.
2) There may be 35 million people living in California, but they must all be crammed into the Bay Area, Sacto., and San Diego/LA/Orange County, because there are certainly large areas of land where there's nobody.
3) Casinos are interesting places, inhabited chiefly by very large people wearing t-shirts from Old Navy or with slogans about September 11 or the like. They eat and gamble a lot, but nobody looks like they're having all that good a time.
4) There are still cool road signs in the Southwest. We saw one advertising Alien Beef Jerky, and another one for an establishment called Bun Boy.
5) You can stop sniggering now (I haven't.)
6) There is a casino in Primm, Nevada where you can see the car where Bonnie and Clyde were sitting when they were gunned down.
7) While I was gone, California seems to have gone completely mad. But everybody outside of California thinks we're mad already.
8) Arnold Schwartzenegger sounds like Andre the Giant impersonating the Dwead Piwate Woberts in The Princess Bride. I don't know that I can listen to that for 3 years.
9) There's no place like home. There's no place like home...
