The Day We Lost Our Independence--July 5, 2021
We traveled to California to attend Heidi Burnham Davies' wedding to Larry Case on July 3. Heidi is Barbara's niece. We had dinner with an old friend of Don's from school, Charley Turk, and his wife Carol Sue. We spent the night at a bed and breakfast and then went to Church with Eris Burnham (Barbara's sister) and had lunch with Mike and Eris and Julianne Denney (Barbara';s niece) and family who had come down from Montana. Then we traveled back to Las Vegas where we stayed at another bed and breakfast. We got up early because the air conditioner on the car was going out and we wanted to get to cooler climes before the day got really warm. Uncharacteristically, Don said he wanted to drive. Usually on long trips like this, Barbara drives first in the morning because she is more alert early in the day than Don. Barbara navigated on her phone to get us from the bed and breakfast to I-15. We had just entered the freeway. We w...