Phil Fretz: Annoy your liberal friends, enjoy a vacation in Arizona

Jacksonville ^ | June 14, 2010 | Phil Fretz

[george76]

Pity poor Arizona!

First, the federal government causes it a lot of economic damage by failing to enforce the immigration laws.

Then, when Arizona decides to lend a helping hand on enforcement, the political left gets in a snit and launches a boycott.

Fine. Let them.

I'm launching a buycott.

My wife and I are canceling our planned trip to San Francisco this summer.

We'll be going to Arizona, instead.

We want our hard-earned tourist dollars to go to the good people there, not the extreme leftist city that Nancy Pelosi calls home.

Besides, to be honest, I wanted to go to Arizona, anyway.

You see, I used to live there. It's a beautiful place. I've always loved it ... and always will.

In fact, you should go, too.

The federal government is running a $1.5 trillion deficit. By comparison, the deficit was just $163 billion - which still seemed like quite a bit at the time - as recently as 2007.

What is the government buying with that borrowed money?

Among other things, the Heritage Foundation says (citing a Congressional Budget Office report), it's spending $2.6 million "training Chinese prostitutes to drink more responsibly on the job."

It's also funding research to determine how much alcohol a college coed might have to consume before becoming, as my generation used to put it, "sexually loose."

[Inclines to the Right]

I was there recently and enjoyed my shopping trip very much! My sister is planning to go to AZ soon as well and bypassing Austin (where she used to live) altogether.

We love Arizona! :)

[cookcounty]

We’re coming next week! Near Flagstaff, what’s better ,Oak Creek Canyon or Walnut Canyon?

[KC Burke]

Drive through Oak Creek and see all the Sedona area. Plan a lot of time for hiking.

Thank me when you get back.

[george76]

You can do day trips out of Flagstaff.

Either up into the mtns or down into the canyons.

A loop trip might include Prescott and lots of Pueblo stuff to see.

[DemforBush]

Don’t have the time or the dime to take a vacation right now, but I’m definitely considering AZ this fall. I have a friend in Scottsdale I haven’t seen in years.

[machogirl]

Come, we welcome you. But bring your own fan. I need mine. ;)

[politicalamity]

I love Oak Creek Canyon. My wife and I spent our 10th wedding anniversary in Sedona.

[uglybiker]

And if you come Down Oak Creek Canyon, you can go just a few more miles south and stop by McCain's 'Ranch near Sedona'!

ooooOOOOOOOOOOoooooooh!

[ComeCulturedGirl]

I love Arizona too, but i will love it more in the winter
sooo hot now

[goat granny]

My son and his family are going to arizona also, he said everytime they buy something they are telling the store its because of their stand on illegal immigration and boycotts..

Good to let those in Arizona know your supporting them..

[ccmay]

Near Flagstaff, what’s better ,Oak Creek Canyon or Walnut Canyon?

Don't know much about Walnut Canyon, but Oak Creek is gorgeous. It has a paved road, campgrounds, motels, restaurants, etc. Slide Rock State Park is a favorite swimming hole this time of year.

Once you get down into Sedona, you can drive over to the next big canyon to the west, which is Sycamore Canyon. It's every bit as big and beautiful as Oak Creek Canyon, but is a wilderness area where you have to hike in or ride horseback. Even bicycles are forbidden. It makes a nice contrast with the development in Oak Creek.

[ccmay]

I love Arizona too, but i will love it more in the winter sooo hot now

Only down in the deserts, trust me.

The mountains, plateaus, and canyons in the north and east part of the state are perfect this time of year. It has been less than a month since they opened the road to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, which is over 9000 feet elevation and has been closed due to impassable snow since October.

[snuffy smiff]

I have standards-I have no liberal friends.

[ccmay]

A loop trip might include Prescott and lots of Pueblo stuff to see.

Prescott is well worth the trip in summer. There are lots of art and music fairs, a major rodeo, horse racing, streets full of beautiful Victorian homes, the shady courthouse square, and Whiskey Row with its dozens of bars and live music.

I once visited the clifftop Hopi Indian villages with my kids. That was an excellent trip. Walpi is the most scenic and well-preserved village that white people are allowed to visit. Oraibi is the oldest community in the U.S.-- people have been living on these cliffs for at least a thousand years-- but it is off limits to all but Indians.

[ccmay]

Walpi Village

[Cindy]

Thread bump.

[Cindy]

Small Sampler - Thread Bump:

“Arizona Tourism”
http://www.arizonabeautiful.com/

“Hart Prairie, Flagstaff, Arizona”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGhdpb5Zasg

“Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfZo6JOcNtk

[SuziQ]

Even better, make plans to go to SEDONA AZ, which is hippie central. Lots of 'crystal shops', and earth worship folks. It would drive them nuts to know that folks are actually making a special trip to AZ, because of the calls for the boycott.

But it's truly a gorgeous place, and is a nice base from which to take interesting day trips like to Meteor Crater, on the road from Flagstaff to Winslow, the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, and of course, the Grand Canyon!

[SuziQ]

Slide Rock State Park is really gorgeous, and the falls are fun, but that water is COLD!!!