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#2 nov2018 The LAPHAMS
part two:
EMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL written by David & Maria Lapham cover and art by David Lapham edited by Shelly Bond LODGER is created by The Laphams
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EMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL The hottest day on record occurred on July 10, 1913 when the temperature in Death Valley's Furnace Creek Ranch hit 134.1-degrees.
Name a place Death Valley and it's bound to get all the attention.
A number of years back, before I started writing this blog, I stayed six weeks in the town of Elroy, Arizona.
And I'm telling you there wasn't a day under 120. And one of those days, a day I'll never forget…
…the thermometer at the local Piggy's Pork Pie Pub hit 138-degrees.
So why isn't Elroy in the record books?
Well, it's very simple….
No one was looking.
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Elroy, Arizona sits in Barajita Valley…
Today it's just a small, mostly forgotten, but tightknit community of 312.
…about ten miles north of the Mexican border near the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
At the point I came to Elroy I hadn't yet started the Lodger Blog.
...having just sold my first piece to Conde Nast Traveler magazine—
—about the luxury hotels of Buenos Aires.
Still, I was officially a travel writer…
An experience I hated. Hated that I was writing about something that didn't matter to me. I felt trapped in a kind of Hell. So I took my check and a small pack with my laptop, a toothbrush, and some granola bars (still my standard) and began to wander.
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