That’s why T.E. Lawrence reportedly liked the desert; I could add, “It is indifferent.” And this weekend, it was also cold:
Fortunately, Mom and I were prepared with winter gear.
Also fortunately, we escaped the enormous mesa-top lizards this sign showed us: 
Lizards not to scale? Or do they come as big as bighorn sheep now?
“Lizards not to scale? Or do they come as big as bighorn sheep now?”
Well, you know, there was a lot of fallout in that area from the atomic bomb tests in the ’50s…