Arizona

[allbaugh_04]

Callahan auto parts! ? Sandusky, Ohio.

[pajeff02]

Nope.

[TLS_Addict]

Sandusky....reminds me of Tommy Boy and the Penn State raper......lol

[az gt eater]

Reduce, reuse recycle is their motto on their sign.

[Zapper2003]

Waste Management?

[pajeff02]

Not even close guys...

[Smittro]

Not even close guys...

I think McD's already has ground purchased on the Mc'moon..

lol,,You could be 90 million miles from nowhere and still find a McD's to clog your arteries..

[35th-ANV-SS]

Nice pics, Jeff. I subscribed awhile ago and am just not having a chance to look. Arizona is one of the few states I've never been to that I want to visit. Hopefully I'll get out that way before too long. Looks like a great time.

[allbaugh_04]

I think McD's already has ground purchased on the Mc'moon..

lol,,You could be 90 million miles from nowhere and still find a McD's to clog your arteries..

A McChicken in Sydney costs $4 but it tastes a lot better. Most meals cost like 13-15 bucks.

[67CamaroRSSS]

Water comes in from a couple of resevoirs (which is why the Salt River is dry) as well as all those canals you saw.

FWIW, while the water meets all state and federal requirement for being "water" it (at least in the East valley) tastes like crap and imparts a taste to food and drink due to high (but still within limits) solids content (it's very "hard" water). I use bottled water for all cooking and beverages (tea and coffee). I won't drink the tap water, have my reservations about brushing my teeth with it and it dries out my skin when I shower. It leaves one heck of a white rind on the clay pots that my potted plants are in.

Look at it this way: I'm a native Angeleno (the only city where the tap water has a "head" on it) and I think LA tap water tastes way better than PHX tap water...

[pajeff02]

Makes me glad I only drank bottled water out there!

You been absent from the site for a while? Seems like you haven't been on in a while.

[az gt eater]

Makes me glad I only drank bottled water out there!

You been absent from the site for a while? Seems like you haven't been on in a while.

I ditto that, been wondering where you were. Welcome back.

[Redrokit8]

Water comes in from a couple of resevoirs (which is why the Salt River is dry) as well as all those canals you saw.

FWIW, while the water meets all state and federal requirement for being "water" it (at least in the East valley) tastes like crap and imparts a taste to food and drink due to high (but still within limits) solids content (it's very "hard" water). I use bottled water for all cooking and beverages (tea and coffee). I won't drink the tap water, have my reservations about brushing my teeth with it and it dries out my skin when I shower. It leaves one heck of a white rind on the clay pots that my potted plants are in.

Look at it this way: I'm a native Angeleno (the only city where the tap water has a "head" on it) and I think LA tap water tastes way better than PHX tap water...

Arizona and Southern California have always had disputes over the water from the Colorado river. If PHX didn't get that water it would still be strictly desert. I've got a brother-in-law that lives right outside PHX. When we fly in there for a visit the airport has lush shrubbery and beautiful green grass. The first time you go you get the shock of your life when you exit the airport property, because suddenly the landscape is dry as a bone. It makes me thirsty just seeing it. Last time we went we were told they just got a new lawn. The new lawn was colored pebbles. Sure as hell don't have to mow.

[35th-ANV-SS]

I took a bunch of pics while I was in CO. I'll have to post them up soon.

[INMY01TA]

Biosphere was a horrible movie.

Every Pauly Shore movie is a horrible movie.

[pajeff02]

Arizona and Southern California have always had disputes over the water from the Colorado river. If PHX didn't get that water it would still be strictly desert. I've got a brother-in-law that lives right outside PHX. When we fly in there for a visit the airport has lush shrubbery and beautiful green grass. The first time you go you get the shock of your life when you exit the airport property, because suddenly the landscape is dry as a bone. It makes me thirsty just seeing it. Last time we went we were told they just got a new lawn. The new lawn was colored pebbles. Sure as hell don't have to mow.

I am guessing they don't sell too many lawnmowers out there. It was various colors of gravel and desert plantings in every yard I saw.

[wileyCoyote]

spent some time working in AZ, ...yuma area, ..and flagstaff area... AZ is a beautiful state, ...you have to get out and see it, ...it's got very diverse geography/climatic areas..

...another really really cool state to run around in is NM...

[67CamaroRSSS]

Makes me glad I only drank bottled water out there!

You been absent from the site for a while? Seems like you haven't been on in a while.

My job here is going away at the end of the month (owner is closing the doors). I've been busy searching for work in and out of state. I've got 2 potential leads that I'm working on: 1 in San Diego and another in Monee, Illinois (40 miles south of Chicago). The lead in San Diego looks more promising. While I have transferable skills, the field I've been working in for the last 20+ years (bus bar design - think power distribution from satellite sized to power plant sized) is rather narrow and I'd like to continue doing this as I find it quite challenging, I'm good at it and I find it fun designing and developing something from nothing into a usuable product.

Provided I find work out of state I'll arrange to lease my house (I've already lined up a property management company to do this) and let somebody else make the payments for me. I'd like to keep the house as I'd like to return to retire here in about 10-15 years.

Wish me luck!

I ditto that, been wondering where you were. Welcome back.

See my reply above...

Arizona and Southern California have always had disputes over the water from the Colorado river. If PHX didn't get that water it would still be strictly desert. I've got a brother-in-law that lives right outside PHX. When we fly in there for a visit the airport has lush shrubbery and beautiful green grass. The first time you go you get the shock of your life when you exit the airport property, because suddenly the landscape is dry as a bone. It makes me thirsty just seeing it. Last time we went we were told they just got a new lawn. The new lawn was colored pebbles. Sure as hell don't have to mow.

All of my front yard and half the back yard (my lot is 15,602 sq ft - large for north Tempe - I'm about 1 mile SE of ASU) is xeriscape (think desert as in rocks, cactus and palm trees). I do have grass around half of the pool's cool deck. They make a particular type of grass that does well here in the desert. I hope one day to put it into what part of the back is grass. At this point I have crap grass but at least it's green (when I water it - lol). The balance of the backyard is also xeriscape. I don't care to mow when it's eleventy billion degrees out either...

spent some time working in AZ, ...yuma area, ..and flagstaff area... AZ is a beautiful state, ...you have to get out and see it, ...it's got very diverse geography/climatic areas..

...another really really cool state to run around in is NM...

I like it myself and plan to retire here at some point. Most folks think it's all desert with cactus and tumbleweeds everwhere. Not true! There are a lot of unique plants and animals that grow and live in the desert. Those folks need to visit the nothern half of the state. Absolutely beautiful and not the same at all as the southern half. North you have mountains; south you have the nothern half of the Sonoran desert, very diverse.

[Redrokit8]

I am guessing they don't sell too many lawnmowers out there. It was various colors of gravel and desert plantings in every yard I saw.

Right Jeff. You pick your colors like shades of brown and even pink. Go great with the pink Flamingos. you know the old saying, "you can pick your nose, but not your neighbors".