Arrived, as planned, at Sky Harbor airport in Phoenix, Arizona, on Saturday 2 September, with my rental car reservation in hand. Hoo Lord.
On Friday 1 September, to go by the lady who let me through the turnstile at the Rental Car Center after checking my license, the whole world and his brother showed up at Sky Harbor airport and proceeded to the airport's Rental Car Center to take all the autos.
What remained for the likes of me, the next day, was pickup trucks and minivans. All the sedans and coupes were outtathere.

So I'm driving the rental minivan (sigh) in beautiful Paradise Valley with the Sirius satellite radio on, some station called the Bridge.

And whom should they broadcast, but Pete Seeger, with six-string guitar, singing the Talking Union Blues.