115 degrees & a traffic nightmare!

Here I am on I-15 between Baker and Barstow. As you can see on the dashboard, it is currently 115 degrees. We just passed the world's tallest thermometer and it said 60 degrees - the heat must have broke it!

Worse yet, when we got just outside of Las Vegas, traffic was necked down to two lanes for repaving of a few miles on the interstate. This caused traffic to stop for over an hour and a half! When we finally got to the crew of about 10 workers, they were all sitting on the K-rail taking a break! Why on earth would they be working placing asphalt of all things when it is over 110 degrees outside and more people are driving on the interstate? It seems much more appropriate to do that at night when it isn't as hot and there is less traffic...what a way end our awesome trip! The next few days are supposed to be just as hot and are going to be very hard to deal with - we will have to remember how nice it was at Jenny Lake to get us through.