I like old: old places, old music, old movies.... which is probably why I haven't been able to hear anything in my head but "Oklahoma is the place to be.... Farm life is the life for me..." since we entered...

Buckle up, folks.  Scott says I'm entering... The Transition.  What an ominous sounding thing?! Apparently The Transition is well known in military circles.  I watched Scott go through his - without really knowing it had a word to define it....

This is how you pull off Thanksgiving on the road: Pull out of your cherry spot in the dry lake bed in Joshua Tree around 10 am.  Head due east.  Drive through some of the most desolate territory in the...