Dora Says The Monsoon Is Coming And We're Still In Arizona

Dear Readers,

The monsoon is coming, and we're still in Arizona. I can feel the coolness of England in my memory. Here it is hot and getting steamy. Now is definitely the time to leave if you don't want to get buckets of water dumped over your head and if you don't want to live in a sauna bath.

I'd rather sail on the Lusitania than stay in Tombstone, Arizona for even one summer. The Lusitania's last voyage was only one week. The monsoon lasts three months --- or more!

Edward says it reminds him of Cairo in the summer where it is often over 100 degrees and where it barely dips below 70 or 80 at night. Cairo is British Mid-East Headquarters. He and Lawrence were both headquartered there during the Great War.

But I am not used to deserts and neither are most of the characters in the novel.Please send us on an Alaska cruise!

Sincerely yours,

Dora Benley
P.S. I didn't mention the monsoon once in volume one of my memoirs, Kings Abdullah's Tomb.