Escape Hatch

Texans often travel to escape summer’s heat, heading for the Gulf Coast, the Hill Country or the mountains. A few travel to Europe, where they’re finding a “heat wave” that’s even more punitive than ours. But at some point, you have to come back. Walk into the oven everyone else has been roasting in while you were gone. That makes it seem even hotter. I was only gone two weeks, but, driving…