"That's a horse of a different color!" the man cornily responds.  "More of a horse with no name," you wryly retort.  "I'll take it!"  So now you're in the middle of July, in the middle of nowhere, on a horse.  Humming the appropriately-related America song, you suddenly take notice of a haze forming.  Positive the heat's getting to you, you try and figure out what's going on.  Is it some sort of a large special-effects device?  Or is it a time warp?
  some sort of haze machine
 time warp