We say goodbye to Patrick after the cars are set up for the day. As we walk, I wonder if his wife will ever forgive me for putting her husband through such torture. I also wonder how Melissa, who is joining us tonight, will be able to tolerate the valley heat. I guess I will just have to wait and see.

An hour into the walk, we spot a parked car in the distance. As we get closer, we see people with video cameras and microphones. We wonder what they are shooting. Soon we find out: they are filming us! It is a British television crew doing a documentary on the world's hottest, coldest, wettest and driest and windiest places. They interview us for a while and then take off in their air-conditioned van for some fun in Las Vegas. Later in the afternoon, we get on the main highway through Death Valley. There is a little more traffic on this road and more cameras pointing at us. At times we feel like zoo animals providing entertainment to people. But it does not bother us. We are too busy with our job: putting one foot in front of the other.

Melissa arrives about 6 PM. She flew from her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico to Las Vegas and rented a car. She could not easily bring a chaise lounge but she assured us that sleeping on a picnic table will be no problem.

Dinesh's caption:
We were a curious sight to many a motorist. Here a team of young people who were testing some new cars in the Death Valley heat spend a few minutes taking our picture near Badwater, the lowest point in the Americas.

Car Talk's caption:
"Beats the heck out of me, Vinny. Maybe they're part of some government experiment."