Now we have AC and snowbirds (winter visitors). There is still a lot of wild Arizona, but Phoenix is a huge metropolitan area...
Even Yuma seems to be getting rather crowded to me. Over 100,000 population now, and people are saying it is the next Phoenix...
OH NO! Not Yuma! Over 100,000 people there? That dusty little town almost on the border? My goodness. I went through there in the 1970's. I got REAL tired of going through Blythe. The Salton Sea held no interest for me at all, so there I went driving my 1968 little red VW right through Yuma, Arizona.
HOT. Yuma was hot. I drove through the summer because I had a little bug. I couldn't afford anything more expensive until I got married. Haha, I kept the bug. My husband thought it was a good car.
I remember that my VW seat belt buckle broke in Mexico City (honking constantly, leaning on the horn, as ALL of Mexico City does), so I went to the VW there, spoke with all those VW Germans also living in D.F. and got another VW seat belt buckle. Good days those were.