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 oday we are traveling south east across slightly rolling plains with a scale that defies the imagination. As we look ahead we can only see miles of seemingly nothing and days and days of hard work ahead. The heat is over 115 degrees and is taking a toll on our bodies. We have to drink more to ease the dryness in our throats.  We are also increasing our dose of daily salt tablets. We treat our eyes daily now with a soothing lotion. The grit in our eyes is hard to bear by noon in this sandblasted corner of an empty world.
At night when at last we can stop our bodies are beyond mere weariness. We dare not take a rest day because every day of delay is just another day of tormenting heat.
When we stop for the evening and there is no ger in sight, we realize how totally isolated we are.
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