by rknapp11
I was a kid, and we had been driving with my cousins all night across the desert from LA, with the heat on! The radiator on my cousin's car was malfunctioning and he needed to run the heat to keep the car from overheating. Not even the kids had gotten much sleep when we arrived in Los Vegas early in the morning. We were absolutely in the middle of nowhere, when suddenly, shimmering on the horizon was a swirling multicolored mirage. Our mouths hung open in amazement. We stopped for breakfast and my mother lost a nickel in the slot machines to demonstrate to us kids the evils of gambling.
