Here in the mid-August mid-Atlantic, it’s 99 degrees, heat index 106. It’s been like this ever since I can remember and it’s going to keep being like this. The air wraps itself around you, it doesn’t let you move, you push yourself through it, you can almost not breathe and I swear we’d be better off with some lung/gill combination. Anyway, in honor of the heat here and everywhere across this great land, LWON is running a week of HOT HOT HOT posts — some reduxes, one hot guest.
This first one is from our beloved founder Heather Pringle. She’s an archeology writer, meaning she has to follow archeologists to work wherever they go. This time, they went to the Arizona desert. I can picture them asking, “where’s the writer? did she faint again?”
Here you go. This ran June 25, 2010. Sit in airconditioning and comfort yourself in not being Heather in 2010. She did survive.
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photo by Kevin Dooley