Posted on 04/29/2010 5:28:15 AM PDT by aquapub
Well, they were. ;-)
My favorite is the little signs all over the place that warn you not to enter the arroyos when they're flooded. Not only are you likely to be swept away, but they'll ticket you afterward for being an idiot.
Mrs. jimfree and I are thinking about Mem Day weekend. Some good flight/room packages are available online.
Please! We just got rid of them!
The river and Lake Havasu!
We are....late May and beginning of June we are taking the kids to the southwest. Some of those days will be in AZ. We are going to the parks (Mesa Verde, Canyon de Chelly, Bryce, Zion, ARches, and of course the Grand Canyon. We will also be taking a scenic train ride near Flaggstaff. Timing couldn’t have been better. AS we were planning this trip we didn’t know we would also be able to show support for a state finally standing up to chaos.
Arizona in the summer? I wouldn’t go to Las Vegas in the summer either. I was stationed in the southern California desert and I don’t like the heat, dust, etc. Sure, there are forest and mountain areas as well but I can go to Yellowstone and get that with a lot more comfortable climate. Desert heat is not for me. If I could take time during the fall/winter I would definitely consider Arizona.
The mountains of Arizona are cooler during the summer months and very beautiful. Gorgeous evenings, beautiful sunsets...there is Flagstaff, Sedona, Jerome, The White Mountain region, or maybe the canyon country with a houseboat on Lake Powell.
I’m going to buy some Arizona Iced Tea too, even if it is made in New York.
Yup! I remember about the arroyos. I used to love to explore them (NOT during flash-flood time, however).
They’ve knuckled under to the Yankees in Tucson by calling arroyos “washes”. Now that it’s obvious that many Yankees are against Arizonans, perhaps they can change that word back to “arroyo”!
In August, many Arizonans vacation in the San Diego area, where they are known as “Zonies”. I hope that Arizonans will continue to vacation in San Diego this year, and stand tall if Californian liberals insult them. There are conservatives in Southern California, too, as well as more liberal folks who are fed up with the Third World invasion and with the muslim would-be dictator obama.
Heck, around Tucson, they were calling them "washes" when I was there back in the early 90s. I didn't start using "arroyo" until I moved to New Mexico in '05. I'm an Idaho boy by birth, and grew up hearing and using "gully-washer" for a summer thunderstorm that brings on the flash floods. So they were gullies to me.
That's totally, completely, utterly wrong! I moved here to Scottsdale after living in San Francisco and Las Vegas, and the apparent crime levels in the Phoenix area are just tiny compared to those places. Parts of Phoenix are pretty rough, but it's laid out more like an East Coast city - you can just avoid those neighborhoods - rather than a place like Los Angeles or Las Vegas where the bad neighborhoods are scattered everywhere.
Arizona feels like California forty years ago - American in every way. It's a great place to vacation, even in the summer.
No way - why go somewhere hotter? Now in Jan or Feb would make sense.
OK come up with me hunting in 5° weather before you start to pass along the “w” word... I have both northern and southern European ancestry but my northern ancestry takes over where weather is concerned....When working hard outdoors I am down to tee shirts and sometimes shorts in 30° weather and I challenge you to a cold weather contest....stop by in central NY, to my hunting camp, this February and we will hang out outside and down a couple of ice cold beers...
I’m going to Las Vegas July 5.
Should be interesting.....
flew by light,sight seeing plane to the south rim on a side jaunt on a trip to Vegas in ‘05....it was November and pleasantly warm....though it had been cooler a day or so before we got there....spent a year mostly in Tucson, in 1975 and traveled up to Flagstaff a few times, along with other places on the Mogollon Rim....You can have Tucson and Phoenix in the Summer, but the winters are glorious in the Sonoran Desert...Saguaro Natl park, the Catalinas..the Santo Rita's.....gorgeous.
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