Your daughter's car

We rented a Chevrolet Cobalt at the SLC airport AVIS counter. Rigo set us up quickly and we were driving away at 6:30AM. Absolutely the fastest time I've ever been able to rent a car.

It is very cute. Fire engine red and two little doors and a tiny motor that goes vroom-vroom: any small-town 16-year-old girl would be proud as hell to own this thing. I really miss the Monte right now, the extra two cylinders would be handy.

Very good scenery all around. We follow the railroad tracks we are supposed to be taking, but are ahead of train #6 by several hundred miles in a couple hours.

No CD's and no charger for the laptop mean no tunes. Should have replaced my wrecked iPod instead of blowing the money Weber gave me on whoknowswhat. It's pretty much just AM radio for awhile, and only Rush Limbaugh at that. Haven't listened to him in years. He still isn't doing conservatives any favors.