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desert dweller
Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 46 Location: Tucson
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Posted: 1/26/2003, 9:46 pm Post subject: Why I live in Arizona |
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The high temperature made it to 80 F at my house, in Tucson, this afternoon. The forecast for the rest of the week will be similar. This morning I went on the roof and turned off the pilot light on the heater and cut the power. I will probably not need it again for a few weeks. Jokingly, I called my parents in central Florida and told them that I'm not coming to see them because it was too cold there.
One night last weekend, while most of the country was shivering, I was doing a full moon hike deep in to the Dragoon Mountains where Cochise had a last stronghold. The next day I did a day hike, at 8000', in shorts and short sleeves on southern slopes, five miles from Mexico. Patches of snow were still in the shade.
The desert is beautiful. |
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cakewalk
Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 512
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Posted: 1/27/2003, 9:46 am Post subject: |
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I have not used the heater at all this year... Im here for the same reasons, the warmth and the mountians. |
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ck1
Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 1331 Location: Mesa
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Posted: 1/27/2003, 1:46 pm Post subject: |
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I'm here for the high quality elected officials, the superb professional football team, the backup free highways, the clear views from downtown, the crime free neighborhoods and Arizona's high marks for education....oh...wait ...I mean...
I'm here for the wonderful environment and to-die-for weather! _________________ -Colin
"The Journey is the Destination" |
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Daddee I once was a slug.
Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 2815 Location: Mesa, AZ
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Posted: 1/28/2003, 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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I'm here for the high quality elected officials, the superb professional football team, the backup free highways, the clear views from downtown, the crime free neighborhoods and Arizona's high marks for education....oh...wait
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As pathetic as it sounds - I bet there aren't too many large cities in the USA who can't lay claim to all of those criteria (except for the football team - at least some cities have a decent team - but we did win the world series)
Myself - I like the 'nice' weather, but I still root for a little bit of a winter now and again. Just as a break from the constant 'warm' weather. Summer of course makes me want to shoot myself... _________________ "Only small minds want always to be right."
- Louis XIV
"...haven't you lived long enough to know that two men may honestly differ about a question and both be right?"
- Abraham Lincoln |
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evenstar
Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 5548 Location: SCW by way of CA
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Posted: 1/28/2003, 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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Think it's pretty well known I moved here for the golf Yeah, that game I haven't played in about six months 'cause I got mixed up with a bad crowd of hikers
Love the heat; don't miss winter at all; just wish I could get all the 49'r and A's games on TV _________________ John Richardson and Richie Rich, El Perro de Playero
http://members.tripod.com/~evenstar/index.html
http://www.arizonahikers.com
When the Man waked up he said, "What is Wild Dog doing here?" And the Woman said, "His name is not Wild Dog anymore, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always. Take him with you when you go hunting."
--Rudyard Kipling, from Just So Stories, 1902 |
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Nighthiker
Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 1714
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Posted: 1/28/2003, 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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My parents moved me here because their are no trees in the desert to build a raft or a river to float down on. When I grew up along the Mississippi River in Illinois I constructed rafts and floated down the river only to get in troube by the Coast Guard and the Corps of Engineers |
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kurthzone Thread Killer
Joined: 31 Dec 2002 Posts: 1097 Location: Peoria, Arizona
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Posted: 1/28/2003, 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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ck1 wrote: |
I'm here for the high quality elected officials, the superb professional football team, the backup free highways, the clear views from downtown, the crime free neighborhoods and Arizona's high marks for education....oh...wait ...I mean...
I'm here for the wonderful environment and to-die-for weather! |
We used to have quality air here until the multitudes moved in. I kinda liked it as a dumb ass hick place; when it wasn't so crowded.
I was born here. My mother was born here. My grandmother was born here when it was a territory. I guess I'm just too stupid to be anywhere else. _________________ ;o)> |
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GTG Was lost but now am found
Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 2387 Location: Peoria, Arizona, originally from Rocket City, USA
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Posted: 1/28/2003, 10:00 pm Post subject: why we moved here and such |
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I moved here so that someday I could put up a website that some really cool people interested in hiking could frequent and make lifelong friends.
GTG _________________ Good things come to those who walk. |
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ck1
Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 1331 Location: Mesa
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Posted: 1/28/2003, 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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kurthzone wrote: |
ck1 wrote: |
I'm here for the high quality elected officials, the superb professional football team, the backup free highways, the clear views from downtown, the crime free neighborhoods and Arizona's high marks for education....oh...wait ...I mean...
I'm here for the wonderful environment and to-die-for weather! |
We used to have quality air here until the multitudes moved in. I kinda liked it as a dumb ass hick place; when it wasn't so crowded.
I was born here. My mother was born here. My grandmother was born here when it was a territory. I guess I'm just too stupid to be anywhere else. |
Sure, you might be too stupid (you aren't), but you've lived your life in one of the beautiful places on earth! _________________ -Colin
"The Journey is the Destination" |
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maryphyl Grand Canyon Enchantress
Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 669 Location: Flagstaff
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Posted: 1/28/2003, 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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We used to have quality air here until the multitudes moved in. I kinda liked it as a dumb ass hick place; when it wasn't so crowded.
I was born here. My mother was born here. My grandmother was born here when it was a territory. I guess I'm just too stupid to be anywhere else.
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Me too to all of that. One side of the family has been here since the 1880s (Mesa and Flagstaff) and the other since just after the turn of the century (Winslow and Flagstaff). I am so very grateful to them for coming here because I am the sort of person that would have stayed wherever I was born. The whole world is filling up with people--we should not be surprised that Arizona is filling up too. _________________ Shikekeh hozhoogo naasha.
I walk in beauty. |
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ck1
Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 1331 Location: Mesa
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Posted: 1/28/2003, 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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Hey Maryphyl...I think I remember you mentioning (at the old site not to be mentioned)...a book about the Babbitts (Bruce)...am I right? _________________ -Colin
"The Journey is the Destination" |
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mike What box?
Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 3134
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Posted: 1/28/2003, 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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I remember that, too. _________________ [/size] |
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evenstar
Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 5548 Location: SCW by way of CA
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Posted: 1/28/2003, 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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Think Maryphyl's related to the Babbits _________________ John Richardson and Richie Rich, El Perro de Playero
http://members.tripod.com/~evenstar/index.html
http://www.arizonahikers.com
When the Man waked up he said, "What is Wild Dog doing here?" And the Woman said, "His name is not Wild Dog anymore, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always. Take him with you when you go hunting."
--Rudyard Kipling, from Just So Stories, 1902 |
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Hopalong
Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 12
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Posted: 1/29/2003, 9:09 am Post subject: |
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Aaarrrgghhhhh..............you guys are really testing me!!!!!! I cannot stand it when locals go on and on about how long they've been planted in one spot. GOOODY FOR YOU!!!!!
FORTUNATELY for me my great-great-grandparents were wanderers who crossed an ocean on a piece of sh_ _ ship, then trekked from NYC to Salt Lake City with a bunch of other loonies. Then the great grandparents trekked on further to Idaho, the next generation went to Calif. and the parents went to Alaska. Obviously - I came here? And guess what, my kids don't like it here so I'll assume at some point -they'll be leaving. There, that should make you natives happy. I sometimes wonder if it wasn't those locals that settled here in the 1800's, who had 3 wives and 30 children aren't to blame for the congestion.
So what exactly are you saying - I shouldn't have come here???? Why not? I'm a free, god-loving, tax-paying American. Thankfully, no matter how natives feel, we all can go wherever we want.
Also, in Alaska, you don't call yourself a native unless your skin is brown, even if your grandma is buried in permafrost.
I'll tell you what, living and wandering around this country has given me a pride in America that inspires me. I've been to almost every state and can't wait to get to the ones I haven't.
Sorry for the rant, sorry to offend, it isn't my intention. My intention is just to let local natives know that there are two sides to this story.
One more thing....I love this place - probably more than a lot of natives. _________________ Kelly M. |
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evenstar
Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 5548 Location: SCW by way of CA
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Posted: 1/29/2003, 9:15 am Post subject: |
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Hi Kelly....like your new avatar And glad to see AZH women are tough too _________________ John Richardson and Richie Rich, El Perro de Playero
http://members.tripod.com/~evenstar/index.html
http://www.arizonahikers.com
When the Man waked up he said, "What is Wild Dog doing here?" And the Woman said, "His name is not Wild Dog anymore, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always. Take him with you when you go hunting."
--Rudyard Kipling, from Just So Stories, 1902 |
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