Cutting our trip short

We had to cut our "Retirement Celebration" trip short because of family illness.

Instead of our relaxing 8,000 mile vacation,
it became 4066 miles in 5 1/2 days, starting from Fairbanks, AK.

to San Antonio, Texas.


The last day started before 6 AM, in Trinidad, Colorado's Wall Mart parking lot,

through north-eastern New Mexico,

through the West Texas plains

at the temperatures of 104,

(admittedly the clock is wrong, it was PM, not AM, but the temp is correct)

....and then rising to an all-time historic high of 108 degrees in San Antonio the next day!

So, can you blame us, if the first thing we did was buy two six-packs of these?

One made right here in San Antonio.
We remember their TV ads in the 1960's claiming it tasted so good because it came
"From the land of 100,000 Springs".

And the other is because it's the closest thing we can get here to of our favorite:
Sarah Pale Ale from the Kodiak Island Brewing Company,
where the temperature was 57 degrees while it was 108 here!