FOLIO OLIO: PAGE, AZ

Just got off the road after 6 hours of driving. Four of those hours were spent driving to Four Corners, which is the only place where 4 states touch. I felt exactly like Clark Griswold in the movie Vacation. This was my Wally World.

I, of course, graced it with Tag #93.

When we were about to leave the 4 Corner gate, a group of bikers drove up. One of them said, "What the hell is there to construct...it's just a point on the fucking ground!"

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Saw a combination Burger King and Navajo Cultural Center.......you don't see one of those everyday.

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It's hard to explain how vast it is out here. We could see so far down the lonesome road in both directions that we could just stop and pee right on the center line. Sometimes we didn't pass a car for what seemed like hours. Then right in the middle of fucking nowhere a dusty UPS truck passes us. I was actually impressed.

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TRUE: This morning before we got on the road, I was watching CNN and there was a headline that read: PORN ACTRESS, WANTED FOR MURDER, DIES AFTER FALLING OFF A CLIFF.

I would make a sizable wager that those eleven words have NEVER been arranged in that order before...I find items like that intriguing.

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My wife is the most wonderful of traveling companions. Once during our trip we started finding things wrong with the room: unpainted plaster repair, chipped porcelain, bad remote, etc. My wife took pictures of all of it, emailed it to corporate headquarters, and within thirty minutes the manager had my wife's email on her own computer screen when my wife went to the office to get the key to another room with a discount. Yeah, she's good.

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Did I mention that it's hot as fucking dragon breath outside? It's 103 now, and will be 91 degrees at TEN O'CLOCK TONIGHT!!! You know what they say about it being okay because it's a "dry heat"? Don't believe it. It's HOT...DAMN HOT! The news says that the area is beginning a record heat wave...AND THAT'S ON TOP OF BEING IN THE MIDDLE OF A FUCKING DESERT TO BEGIN WITH!!!

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I saw this mountain range today...(might want to click it bigger and really look at it before moving one...it will be worth it...it's one of those Shit Brix moments)