Hi, welcome back to the roadshow. Hang on, I'm jumping ahead. Okay. We're there.
As I do hope to take another vacation trip in about a decade, I now realize if I tell you every sordid little detail of my wife's and my recent western U.S. automobile excursion, I very well could still be writing this saga 10 years from now when I'm sipping cocktails, floating in a leaky inner tube tied to a rope, trailing the Love Boat, regaling you with my sensational popularly undemanded prose about some wilted lettuce I may or may not have eaten on an undercooked veggie burger, while standing on the corner in Winslow, Arizona, hold the guacamole. (That's the Robert Urich "Love Boat," of course -- as I'm a wit' it, hap'nin' dude.)
Besides, we didn't go there.
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Guide. There. At Canyon de Chelly, near Spider Rock (above), he manages to put on a happy
face after signing autographs for an entourage of European tourists. Not that Mike minds,
except he didn't know how to spell "Marlo Thomas." 
This is the corner in Winslow,
Arizona, immortalized in The Eagles' song "Take It Easy," a major 1970s
rock-and-roll hit, played on radios, vinyl record players -- well, the record players
weren't vinyl; they often were manufactured with gears and screws made out of metal,
mostly, some zinc, I think. Zinc is a metal, isn't it? I think so. So, anyway, these vinyl
records were spun constantly by fans of that popular tune. It has been recorded that
American Top 40 radio personality Casey Kasem -- occasionally seen on Muscular Dystrophy
telethons, a mighty fine cause, by the way -- Casey, I call him "Casey," was
known to remark about this chart-topping melody, The Eagles' "Take It Easy," by
gushing, "...Coming in at number one, The Eagles' 'Take It Easy.'" I supposed it
should be added here, because no one wants to be accused of stealing the intellectual
property of others, that although Casey may have said those words, he actually may not
have written them. Casey has writers, or allegedly he has writers. I'm guessing he does.
I'm in the profession. I would know. It takes writers to sit around a couple of hours,
sometimes more, sometimes less, and with the use of a typewriter (in those days) or maybe
a red felt pen and a yellow legal pad -- I like a #3 pencil with a sharp point and a
Snoopy on it and a 5-by-7 notepad with a Garfield on it; but, that's just me -- these
writers would turn out "Coming in at number one, The Eagles' 'Take It Easy.'"
So, anyway -- I'm sorry; my apologies. I just scrolled back and read that I've already
written "So, anyway" in this caption. I try not to repeat myself; I really do!
It happens. I'm human. I'm mortal. Hey, I think you and I are bonding here; that's good.
It's good for the Guide to bond with the readers. I'm smiling. I am! Love ya. So, anyway,
this corner in Winslow, Arizoner (ha, my spelling, sort of rhymes with
"Velveeter," which we talked about earlier on the trip. Boy, that was a time,
huh?) So, anyway, this spot is one of many vacation sights we simply must not tell you
about due to time and space constraints; don't you know? Don't you understand?
But, had we gone, we would've seen this sign on that corner close up...
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