in place of a title, imagine the sound of a howling wolf

I'm going to be traveling like crazy for the next several weeks, so last week Anne and I took a couple days off to have a quick two day getaway. We went out to this hotel in the desert that we like, and spent about 36 hours sitting by the pool, doing a whole lot of nothing. It was glorious.

The thing about driving out to the desert is that you spend a fair amount of time on the Interstate, where truck stops are as abundant as country and mariachi music on the radio. The thing about going...