IF you have never been in 122 degrees before it is sort of like getting into an oven

In other words if you want to live you might not want to stay there very long without air conditioning.

The longest I was in over 100 degree temperatures with highs of over 120 degrees was when I was about 1975 so I would have been 27 years old and just moved back with my wife and baby from Hilo, Hawaii on the big island then. We were in Gila Bend doing prospecting with a backhoe in dry washes to see if it was feasible to high grade on a mining claim then. I brought my motorcycle then a 1974 Honda XL which was a dualsport that had knobby tires that were great off road but you could also go up to about 70 safely on the freeway as well. However, it was probably the best off road bike I have ever owned even though I now have a knobby tired KLR 650 but since I have a hernia from a burst appendix operation I can't pick it up by myself anymore because it is 388 pounds dry weight. So, I either have to get something lighter (maybe around the size of my old Honda 250 which isn't really good for freeway driving but is great for country roads or off road.

The point is though that be really careful around 120 degrees and above because it is really easy to die in temperatures this high if you make even one mistake. For example, just getting out of your car and going to the bathroom in a service Station might be too much for older people to survive. So, make sure you know what you are capable of surviving first before you decide to do anything in 110 degrees.

I remember driving to Las Vegas and feeling scared just between Barstow and Las Vegas at 111 degrees when my daughters were young because if my car broke down for any reason I wasn't sure I could save them that day. So, be careful in anything above about 100 degrees because at that point anything can and sometimes will start to happen.

I personally remember the 1950s when 99% of people didn't have air conditioners in their cars yet and driving in spring or summer through really hot deserts in California, Arizona and New Mexico and using spray bottles to try to stay cool enough not to get a headache for three days and if you used a spray bottle of water your face got all chapped from sticking your head out of the window to cool down in over 100 degree temperatures. But, usually eventually you ran out of water and had both a headache AND a chapped face for your trouble. We also ALWAYS carried a canvas water bag either for when the car boiled over (before anti-freeze in the radiator) or when you ran out of water just trying to survive. The canvas bag when you drove cooled the water through evaporation as a little permeated the canvas and made the water cooler. You tied the canvas bag to the front grill of your car or truck so you could survive a bad situation (either boiling over or getting stuck and needing water to drink in the heat.