The Worlds Biggest Thermometer

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We made it to Vegas at 2AM. I slept for an hour, then we hit the casinos. We had abouttwenty dollars worth of blackened, charred quarters originally intended for toll booths.They were the only thing to survive the fire, salvaged by the efforts of the Alamogordofire department. We considered them cursed and planned to gamble them away. Unfortunately,we kept winning. We gave up at dawn, twenty dollars ahead and still in possession of mostof the quarters.
    The next day we set about buying a complete set of new tires. I onlypaid three times what I would in any other city in America. In Las Vegas, it was onehundred and four degrees and rising when we left, and we were ready to move on.
    Unfortunately, our path took us through death valley. The car overheated. After reading the manual, we were forced to drive with the heat on to allow theengine to cool. The heat was still on when we came across the giant statue of "BunBoy", standing beside what  he claimed was the world's largest thermometer.Already on the verge of delirium, I was less than pleased at the reading of one hundredand twelve degrees. I have never been that hot before or since.
    We spent the night in lovely Bakersfield, a cesspool of a city, beforesetting out for the Bay.
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