If you moved back to the UK today, what would you miss?
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3 Weeks after my daughter was born we went on a road trip to CO. We stopped overnight in a hotel in Tuba City. The hotel had a courtyard that had brick planters in it and my mother and I decided to take a walk and look around. Resting half on a planter and half on the ground was a tarantula, waving its front legs about. My mother decided to poke it a little with a stick. My husband shouted "watch out! They jump." With that, something landed on my head. I leapt up screaming and promptly wet myself......it was a cricket! We were all creasing up over it afterwards.
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3 Weeks after my daughter was born we went on a road trip to CO. We stopped overnight in a hotel in Tuba City. The hotel had a courtyard that had brick planters in it and my mother and I decided to take a walk and look around. Resting half on a planter and half on the ground was a tarantula, waving its front legs about. My mother decided to poke it a little with a stick. My husband shouted "watch out! They jump." With that, something landed on my head. I leapt up screaming and promptly wet myself......it was a cricket! We were all creasing up over it afterwards.
He set the jar down on the desk and there was this stonking great hairy tarantula sleeping peacefully at the bottom of it. He was taking it home to turn it loose on his 40 acres of desert.
That was as close as I ever want to be to a tarantula.
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Its not always hot, 4 months of the year can be tough depending on your attitude, but for me the summer is no worse than a long hard winter.
Also no tornadoes, hurricanes or earthquakes here.
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The dirt is red. The sky changes colour all the time, probably due to all the pollution being blown in from northern Virginia.
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Bits of Phoenix are alright like the Arcadia area but the new bits, all you see is miles and miles of terracota roof tiles. Really boring.
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There´s lots of beauty in AZ; Sedona, for one ... and the Grand Canyon of course. The area up near Flagstaff gets snow in winter and there are huge forrests. I used to have a customer in the ´four corners´area (NE Az), and chose to drive instead of fly from Phoenix along the salt river - fabulous scenery.
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There´s lots of beauty in AZ; Sedona, for one ... and the Grand Canyon of course. The area up near Flagstaff gets snow in winter and there are huge forrests. I used to have a customer in the ´four corners´area (NE Az), and chose to drive instead of fly from Phoenix along the salt river - fabulous scenery.
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There´s lots of beauty in AZ; Sedona, for one ... and the Grand Canyon of course. The area up near Flagstaff gets snow in winter and there are huge forrests. I used to have a customer in the ´four corners´area (NE Az), and chose to drive instead of fly from Phoenix along the salt river - fabulous scenery.
I wouldn't mind visiting it. that would be interesting, but to live there? No thanks, it wouldn't be my idea of ideal
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My point was more along the lines of, don't assume that all of AZ is a desert. Sedona, AZ is a very high-end, cultural place, with fabulous scenery and lots of artsy-fartsy stuff. Here's few pics I've taken around Sedona that counter the 'desert' image (third pic is more 'desert-like', but still rather pretty - houses surrounded by red-rocks in Sedona. Second pic shows snow surrounded by trees, taken on the drive from Sedona to Phoenix. First pic is taken on the approach to Sedona).
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