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Baking In The Barstow Heat

         This week's class is in Fort Irwin, California.  The nearest town is Barstow, but it's a 45 minute drive from there to the base,  It was 109 degrees yesterday, and about that hot today.  Thank God I get to teach in an Air Conditioned classroom.  Some of you might think, "Well of course you do!" But that's not always the case.  I was here a few years ago (met NaNoNette on that trip), and taught in a converted Quonset hut.  It didn't have air conditioning, just a swamp cooler that couldn't be used much because of noise.  There I was, shirt and tie, 98 degree heat, and a bit of humidity.  But I lived, and will continue to do so.

         In 2006 I went to Omaha Nebraska to teach a class.  I had heard of a large rock in Iowa called "Patriots Rock", and had to stop to snap a picture of it.  A local artist paints this rock every year, each time a new Military themed logo on it.  I wonder what it looks like today?

         Being here in Barstow, I'm out in the desert quite a bit, can you tell by the heat?    But near the main gate to the base sits a field of boulders/rocks.  Many of them have had logo's for the base divisions/Army companies painted on them.  Since I'd taken that picture in Iowa so many years ago, I had to snap more of these, didn't I?  Interesting, beautiful, and in some ways, sobering.  So many of our men willingly put their lives at stake in the name of our country.  I'm sure some were stationed here.

         I'll be here until Thursday morning before heading off to Los Angeles.  I have a lunch date Friday with NaNoNette and Jeff   I hope to have a picture of the three of us to post here in my blog.  Til next time, y'all stay cool in this heat, and avoid the storms!  A good way of doing that would be to sit at your pc and write something!