July 31 - Hotter Than That


139th day of summer -- hottest day of the year thus far at 107 (89th, 45th, and 11th at 80, 90, 100-or-above), topping the recent locales of Buttonwillow 106, Yucaipa 94, Idyllwild 81...

The hundred count, odds above, evens below, at...

107 July 31
105 June 8-9
104 June 30, July 13
102 July 14, 26-27
100 June 10, July 25, 29


Compose page 16 of Sex and the Species,


and


take


the


13th


Bike-


Pool-


Spa


plunge of the season, the path still radiating heat after sunset -- warmest ever experienced in this capacity....

A very auspicious day, and very glad to be home with Harriet....

July 30 - Envoi Again


Out in the


wild blue,


extended coffee at


White Rabbit with


John, and


another fine time,


eventually


taking


leave


to


take


on


the


rest of the


grading for the DVC Summer 2014 Semester,


and, miraculously,


submitting same online, at a distance.


An extended process, but finally on the road,


discovering the culinary joys of Jersey Mike's Subs (reasonably authentic hoagies),



then


proceed


10 west,


angling


northwest


on


215


towards the Transverse Range,


merging into 15,


north into Cajon Canyon,



past the Lone Pine / San Andreas Fault and


the


surreal


undulating


lines


of


Mormon Rocks,


to the Ampitheatre and over the Pass,


395 into



the Joshua-Tree-strewn


Mojave,


the point-of-no-return


Kramer


Hills,


west on 58 past Boron,


into


the


Tehachapis,


windmills,


more


yuccas,


the


high


rocky,


expansive


Monolith


Valley,


lonely


vistas


rollercoastering


down


towards


Keene


Buttes,


darkness towards Buttonwillow, north again,


now on 5, Kamm Avenue once more,


580,


680,


collapsing into belated rest....