At the end of this article about Bay Area hikers climbing nine local peaks in nine days was the tantalizing command “try a search on ‘Dinesh Desai’ to reach an amusing page on Desai’s interactions with NPR’s ‘Car Talk’ show.” I couldn’t pass up a chance to be amused by those Car Talk guys. So here is the easy-to-find page (why they didn’t just link it I don’t know) where you can hear the original phone call from Dinesh asking the guys what to expect from keeping three cars in the Death Valley for 12 days in the middle of the summer. And then you can follow along on his nice little hike through Death Valley (with photo captions provided by Click and Clack. I’m not sure they’ve figured out what his wife sees in him).