Phoenix
Arizona State University
February 26, 2007
Well I'm in Phoenix. There was a snow storm in Milwaukee, so my flight was cancelled
and we can't get another flight until Wednesday. There seems to be a decent
number of people stranded considering most of the Midwest's airports shut down
yesterday, so we're staying on, what our cab driver calls "hooker's
hollow" or "crack alley."
Yesterday after checking in, we headed down to Tempe for dinner. The area is home
to Arizona State University and seems to be overly concerned with image. We
ran into one of my co-worker, Jenn's friend from college and she said all people
care about here is image. It seems obvious and while there's a lot of entertainment,
the people I encountered have very different priorities than myself.
Today I was a tourist, walking around downtown and hitting all of the sites mentioned
in the brochures from the tour guide rack in the hotel. The city feels like a business
center, which has plenty of work, however at night people retreat to their respective
suburbs and the city dies by 6pm.
Phoenix isn't bad, it's just not me. The highlight was eating at a place
with a sign out front shaped like a giant longhorn steer's head. The food was
good southwestern fair, the floors covered in sawdust, and the crowd real.
Downtown