Driving through Arizona is driving through Riverside for six hours. Same scenery, same two lane highway - the only difference would have to be that by the fourth or fifth hour on the road you're making way too many parallels between Super Mario Brothers and real life. The sun wears Oakleys and follows you around and the dust tornadoes are taller than any buildings they've got out there.
Beautiful campus. There's around 27k students attending in the fall, and you're gonna be one of the 7k or so freshmen - they can call you grampa, I guess. Gas was low 4.20s for regular, which is great in comparison to LA prices, but cigarettes were around $6 a pack, which is totally and wholly unacceptable.
Points taken:
- NeoNazis are still alive and kicking out there, only they call themselves the "Arizona Militia." Good to know.
- People can (and do) carry their guns in holsters - in public. That's wild to me. A grandma was blown away on a freeway in Tuscon a couple weeks ago and I remember sitting at a restaurant in Phoenix and seeing a guy walk by with a shotgun slung over his shoulder.
- (direct quote) "The AZ police doesn't know how to deal with [Filipino/Asian] people. They just treat us like the Mexicans." Shit.
- You've got to watch out for bikers on the freeway moreso than you do out here since the Grand Canyon State doesn't have a helmet law.
