Saturday, 15 September. I went out this morning to get some photos of the smoke blowing in from a fire. It turned out that there is a wildfire in the San Bernardino Mountains. It was the most impressive cloud of smoke streaming in from a couple hundred of miles away. As I drove out west of Vegas, I realized the cruise control wasn’t working. Sigh! Back to Saturn. – About 7 hours later the cruise control was working, it was easily and cheaply [free, under warranty] fixed. and I had traded it & the rest of the car in for an 07 Saturn Red Line. Carpe Diem and all that. 
– The car is basically the same as the one I had. I was going to look for one when I returned. No need to look any more. I’ll break in the new car on the way to LA. I got a bunch of frequent flyer miles as I purchased the car on my credit card. – Yes, this trip has been a little bit unusual. – I was a little bit dazed by how quickly all this happened. And the hardest part of all this will be packing my old car and packing the new one.
