[Overpaid Slacker]

Hey guys. Got back yesterday. My end-point was Phoenix, NV. It was 118 F when I pulled into town. Eeeeyikes. No thank you. The high desert was nice; got to see a high school buddy in Gallup, NM that I hadn't seen in a decade. He's actually good friends with a fellow Pelican -- the publisher of 9 Magazine. The timetable was too fluid and hectic to get to arrange any meetings, but it's so damned easy to drive around the country that I'll have to do it again.

At this point, the only 3 contiguous states I haven't been in are Washington, Oregon and Arkansas. And I've no interest in Arkansas. I tried to talk my like-minded uncle into driving down to the Missouri/Arkansas border and standing in Missouri while peeing on Arkansas. Holiday traffic near/around Branson made it inconvenient, however.

I'll try to post some pix and trip stories tomorrow before I take off for the weekend. Jackie and I are going to visit Brian Bell at his parents' camp near Warren PA.

Thanks for the interest in the 2002! If I could only keep one toy, that'd be the one. I'll take more pix of it next time it sees daylight and post 'em.

Favorite bumper sticker from the road trip (which I purchased at Panhandle Gunslingers in Amarillo): Guns Kill People Like Spoons Made Rosie O'Donnell Fat.

Snicker.

Check y'all later.

JP