My Oldest Cub Is Going To Phoenix

It should be very nice weather this time of year, will she have transportation?

Montezuma's Castle is about an hour's drive north of Phoenix and not far from Sedona (crystal power center of the Universe but exceptionally beautiful. Also a nice drive is up Apache Trail (superstition Mtns) coming back thru Globe (about 3 hours total drive) another nice drive is to Payson and across the Mogollon Rim.

im sorry, but you just said crystal power center of the universe. what do you mean? i have never heard of montezumas castle and my friends live in phoenix.

is it a rock formation?

montezuma's well

Montezuma Well is a limestone sink formed long ago by the collapse of an immense underground cavern. Over one and a half million gallons of water a day flow continuously, providing a lush, verdant oasis in the midst of surrounding desert grassland. The waters of the well contain several forms of plant and animal life not found in any other waters of the world. This unique habitat is perhaps due to the constant input of large quantities of warm water that enter through underground springs, keeping the environment within the well very stable.

I hear they have the best meth labs in the whole country. Now that's entertainment.

Sedona

I suspect there area number of things in this universe you've never heard of.

He's workin on it, Dys... :wink:

RH

Re: My Oldest Cub Is Going To Phoenix


She can come watch me play soccer on Sunday. That ought to be enough excitement to hold her the week.

Hard for such as me to explain crystal power, since I'm not interested, but they're not referring to drugs, or not only to drugs here, Ogionik. More like New Age interest in the spiritual power of crystal formations. Wikipedia could tell you more than I could, I bet.

For architecture, there are two Frank Lloyd Wright places to see of interest, including Taliesen West, and (do I remember right? Part of the Biltmore Hotel) and Paolo Soleri (or similar name)'s place called Arcosante. I saw it some long time ago, and thought, "eh?", but depending on one's interest... I did like Taliesen West, was glad I saw it.

But Dys is right. The magic is the land.

I'd like to go there soon, as an a2k friend, JLNobody, has some paintings up at the university I really want to see, and I'm not sure when the exhibit is coming down. (Plus catching a chance to meet/see Tico).

Partying there in general I can't tell you about. I have a friend who used to be a tv anchor there and got married in those years and a bunch of us old pals from California went to the wedding, were put up at what seemed to be a golf club motel, if that's not a self cancelling description, one blasting hot weekend. Great wedding in some private home garden, great food, great music. (Marriage didn't work out, but that took a lot of years.) The ride from LA to Phoenix in the car crammed full of smartass friends was, if not a full half the fun, was some memorable part of it.

Stone's throw from me, osso.

One of my favorite parts was the tree near the entry, trying to think of the latin name, but the common name is yellow oleander... but also, not just the tree, but the tree AND the entry.
Starts with T, I think.

I'd be surprised if there aren't houses I could spend days driving by in the Phoenix area, of various styles including the history of much experiment, though my main interest might be otherwise.
(I must be one of the 4 people in the universe that doesn't care about geodesic domes).

And then there's this ...

Yeh, the land.. and the land. And how people have dealt with it.



Don't get me going on the havusai cantilevered viewing platform.

Money talks, don't it?

Dys, did you shoot that Sedona winter scene? It's obscenely georgeous.

Ah, Osso is asked about "crystal power." That's one of the New Age forms of pseudo-mysticism, along with the spiritual centers called vortices (plural of vortex?) hawked at Sedona for touristic purposes. I know an art dealer there (now retired) who said he and his friends are embarrassed by the image.