In article jsAUb.233452$na.372373@attbi_s04, Loren Coe says...

my daughter and i crossed the Mojave into Needles (promptly dubbed,
Needless), CA, one June on a record heat day. against all common sense,
we had stripped down to bathing suits and bare feet (gawd it was
hot). we pulled into a park with a swimming pond and decided to cool
off. she really planted her right leg up against the pipes while
dismounting. we were already close to heat stroke and it took a moment
for the pain to register, pretty awful...

The heat will make one do strange things. I recall stopping
at a rest area on the way to needles and blyth on a family
trip. We were in a land barge Ford LTD station wagon with
the AC cranked all the way up - and while we were having
lunch a young man drove up, in what was probably an mgb,
with the top down. I think he didn't realize how dehydrated
he was until he tried to stand up, and promptly fell over
by the car.

We poured him full of water and got him back among the living.

My memories of that trip included needles, blythe, and an overnight
stay in Yuma where the motel for some reason had the vestigial
remains of what I belive was a lockheed P80 shooting star
parked behind it. All the glass was broken out of it, and
the instruments and avionics were gone. But for a ten year
old kid to sit in a cockpit like that, pure joy.

Jim

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