ALL ROADS LEAD TO PHOENIX

There is only one way to drive to Phoenix from where I live.

I mean, without going through another state, or facing miles and miles of poor back roads of desert, brush, and Indian Reservation land.

It's Interstate 10.

So when your youngest child is driving up to Phoenix one evening, you know that he is traveling on I-10.

And you don't want to see things like this on the Weather Channel national coverage, CNN headlines as the second leading story.

With updates on the four people killed.

Until 10:04 p.m., when your son calls and he is safely at the hotel in Mesa.

Whew.