For those Americans who think of Arizona at all, there are two distinct parts of the forty-eighth state: the beautiful natural scenery and the awful white residents. But a brave band of liberal revolutionaries in the smart-person stronghold of Pima County is reviving a 45-year-old plan to split Tuscon and the surrounding Sonoran desert from those hideous cretins in their Phoenix hellscape. On next year’s presidential ballot, the secession of “Baja Arizona” will go to the voters. And if the whole state or the legislature or some confusing combination allows it, and the nincompoops in Congress grant it, Baja Arizona will become America’s 51st state … just in time for being sold back to Mexico with the rest of the Southwest, so Washington can pay its bills, because Washington will not collect taxes from the ultra-rich and the mega-corporations, because it’s only patriotic to collect taxes from working people.
One of the many secondary tragedies related to the greater tragedy of the massacre at that suburban Safeway grocery store in January is that the rest of the nation got the idea Tucson was just another stretch of shitty strip malls and foreclosure ghost towns and wandering crazy people like Jared Loughner. This is untrue. All the southwest cities are now ringed with these repulsive stucco ghettos, and the evil bankers and developers and housing speculators dumped their garbage over the desert foothills around Tucson, too. But Tucson itself is a lovely university town with funky nightlife and great food and a gazillion miles of hiking and bicycling trails, as well as being home to many beloved oddballs and artists over the decades, including Edward Abbey, Linda Ronstadt, Dr. Andrew Weil, Mo & Stew Udall, Margaret Sanger, David Foster Wallace, Joan Baez, Barbara Kingsolver and the musical family of Giant Sand/Calexico. It would be a fine capital town.
But it would be even better to join up with the Navajo Nation and the Hopi Nation and the Sedona/Verde Valley counties and the national parklands of Grand Canyon and Saguaro and Organ Pipe and encircle the evil Phoenix/Maricopa flatlands full of swollen white suburban swine. Wall it in. Let ‘em call for an airlift of Hoverounds and anusburgers and diabetes medicine. For America! For Arizona! [Reuters]
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Finish the DANG fence!
I've been to Phoenix once and to Tucson once and this makes a lot of sense to me.
They talk about this every once in awhile out in Washington state. Split the state down the Cascade mountain range, dividing it into the latte-libs of cosmopolitan Western Washington and rootin' tooting gunslinging cowboys of agricultural Eastern Washington.
I'd be all for it if it didn't mean those assholes east of the Cascades got two senators in the other Washington.
Right – the key here is not to create more states within the United States of America. Within the current system, that clearly creates MORE power for wingnuts. We're talking full-on secession here – our own Congress and such.
WA native here. Born in Pasco, going gray in Olympia.
"swollen white suburban swine"
Isn't that the Arizona state motto?
Only if yelled while shooting an assault rifle into the air.
I think its the State Animal, ain't it… with Truck Nuts?
Can't we just sell McCain, Kyl, Brewer and that pink panty Sheriff to Mexico and be done with the whole thing?
The best part of this is they will likely put their wall along the Pinal/Maricopa county and Pima County border. That's just fine with me. I want a checkpoint for anyone who wants to come in……..also, would it be okay if we burned the Tucson burbs to the ground? Really, 90% of those people only live here TO BUILD MORE HOUSES. So fucking stupid.
I feel your pain, in my gut. Like when a shitty new tract appears where there used to be creek beds and palos verdes and cactus gardens and the first occupied houses have "Granite Construction" pickups in the driveway?
So happy that era is over. (Crosses fingers.)
No! No! Every trim carpenter from San Ysidro to Pahrump prays you're wrong!
What about Tucson to Tucumcari
Tehachapi to Tonopah?
Golly I love my south west but really hate the wanton destruction just for short term material wealth.
In my life time I have seen literally hundreds of thousands of acres carved up by motor sports , and still they bitch and moan if a few measly acres or roads are closed so that the land can heal itself.
Useless motor vehicles tearing up the desert = freedom! Go over to any auto website and prepare to face a firestorm of “libertarian” abuse if you suggest otherwise. And shouldn’t that be “Tucson to Tucumcari, Techachapi to Tonopah”? Why, yes it should:
http://www.digihitch.com/road-culture/music-lyric...
And if the suburban homebuilding/land-raping industry thinks we’re going to be back where we were any time soon, they’re in for a big disappointment. It was a good long ride, but it’s over.
The Albuquerque valley in New Mexico existed as a beautiful oasis full of cottonwoods and prairie grass in the desert. But we've bulldozed most of the vegetation into flat dirt lots that they will build houses on some day in the future maybe. Now with all the erosion we have dust storms at least once a week.
*Sigh*, my beautiful home…
Luckily (or not), Socorro has been spared much of that "prosperity" and "development". Sure, the wind is rough right now, but we don't get the dust white-outs on the highway like they do in Belen or (gasp!) the "West Side".
Don't forget about us in Northern California. Fucking SoCal (sorry Ken!) keeps taking all our water for their swimming pools, those bastards.
As for the rest: Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Zwei TruckNutz!
Yep, Nor-Cal!! Gotta do it.
I'd boot out SoCal just because of the Lakers. Oh, and fucking Orange County.
lol it's true. I was born & raised in SoCal. Their philosophy is basically, "fuck you, we're more important."
Downstate NY? Oh fuck no, unless you want Western Upstate to send Gov. Sen. Congressman for Life Carl Paladino to Washington, D.C.
Amerizona?
Sounds Brazilian.
Tuscon has a landing strip, right?
Where's Bristol's house?
Not Tuscon apparently. It's in the north in Buninoven County.
Does Tucson have a landing strip? Or is it totally shaved and bare?
Tuscon International has one bare strip.
Nice little aeropuerto called Tucson International. Quite the setup.
Don't forget Davis-Monthan. We have A-10s, bitches.
Don't forget about Texas while we are giving things away.
Hell, give 'em Southern California while we're at it. Mexico can have everything south of Gilroy, as far as I'm concerned.
Fine with me here in L.A. I could use universal healthcare.
Plus chilaquiles with green tomatillo sauce for breakfast every damn morning — mmmm, good!
Governor Giffords, anyone?
Pretty Please!
No, she's running for Senate, although it's not clear if she knows it yet. Now that the great statesman John Kyl(e) has announced his retirement in humiliation and disgrace, there's a seat open.
Splitters!
What have the Phoenicians ever done for us?
Well, there is the ….hmmm….actually, not a damn thing!
The Phoenicians gave us the phonetic alphabet, for one! But nothing lately since they ceased to exist as their own culture after Alexander the Great conquered their homeland and Rome destroyed Carthage.
Not those Phoenicians, silly….the hoverbots in the Valley of the Sun!
Gawd, I am soooo glad I escaped from there 33 years ago. And for those proposing Baja Arizona….please include Flagstaff & the Canyon. Those folks, with whom I dwelt for 4 blessed years at NAU, do not deserve to be stuck with the Hell that is Maricopa County. They should also have liberal refugee policies for the good folk (like my family) trapped there.
Does "the Canyon" => Salt River Canyon? If so, I'm right there with you!
Any time I've driven to phx it was the thought of knowing that I would soon be driving back through the SRC that kept me going.
Oooh, and I forgot to add:
Carthago delenda est!
As a Tucsonan, this sounds like a great idea until I remember that our esteemed governor just signed legislation permitting her to raise up a state militia (separate from the National Guard) if the actual Guard is currently mobilized by the Feds, or "for any reason the governor considers to be necessary.”
Guess which of those two justifying circumstances gives me pause. Especially if she decides to make Russell Pearce the Supreme High Nine-Star Militia General in Chief.
You all can have a militia, too — to protect yourselves from the aggressive white devils of Phoenix.
Dunno, it's shaping up to be Maricopalos with their unlicensed Uzis against Tucsonans flinging tortillas like frisbees. I suppose we'll go down, but it will be deliciously.
as a former Phoenician and a current Tucsonan, I must say I am not worried. I can just imagine a Militia out of Phoenix. It would look a lot like Sheriff Joe's Posse. Just take away their pudding and tell them it's nap time.
So funny. Awful white people have become so strident and intolerable, so gun-obsessed and deficit insane, we're going to secede from THEM.
Should you ever be sentenced to do time Arizona, your first choice of locale would be Tucson. Suicide is the second choice. Phoenix is a distant third.
I hope this divorce goes through. Maricopa can keep the repulsive stucco faux-pueblo in the ghetto. Tucson gets the kids and the cuisine.
We will gladly hand them the Foothills and Marana. Everything north of the Rillito, actually–that way we get to keep our REI–and Vail.
Prescott ain't so bad. Arcosanti is good for nostalgia. &c.
More important question to ask, who gets the dog?
The People's Democratic State of Tuscon
The official flag: The Jolly Roger
The official state motto: Fuck you crazy wingnuts
Of course this will condemn North Arizona to permanent domination by racist old white people for at least a generation. Brewer would likely build a wall seperating the two states.
Flagstaff is welcome to come along as our Upper Peninsula.
More apt, Flagstaff would be Baja's Kaliningrad.
Here in Michigan, we went to war with Ohio and got the U.P. as a reward. We wanted Toledo from those buckeye bastards. Peninsulas only come with (threats of) violence, is what I guess I'm saying.
This is a great idea, and as a bonus it will induce a hilarious tsunami of Teatard righteous indignation.
A bunch of Yosemite Sams with steam billowing from their ears!
LIBERAL secessionists? The mind, it boggles.
The not-so-civil war over water rights will be hilarious.
H.R. 1 of the first Congress of Baja Arizona – Motion to Join California
Which gets its water from Colorado….
"Baja" sounds a bit too ethnic. If they want to get the white Phoenix vote, they should call it something a little WASPier, like West Carolina or maybe South Hampshire.
Remember, they want Phoenix to *agree* with Tucson secession. So the more Mexican-y it sounds, the more the old white slobs of Phoenix will support splitting the state. Caint have Mescan parts in U.S. Arizona!
Sure, why not? Stoners have to live somewhere.
Hell, Memphis and Nashville have wanted to secede from the rest of Tennessee since the day after statehood was granted. Sorry Knoxville, but you're on your own (and good luck with that whole Baptist boyfucker Stacey Campfield thing).
Will they have to go to war with New Mexico to get that piece of Baja?
I can't decide whether Linda Ronstadt is an "artist" or an "oddball."
Yes…
I love Linda. I had the biggest crush on her at 17. Now at 52….I can see she could literally crush me.
"Blue Bayou" is one of my favorite songs, but not for people standing nearby while I (attempt to) sing it.
This won't attract enough attention until they also say they will adopt the Amero as the official currency of Baja.
We in New Orleans have not considered ourselves part of the US, let alone bumfuck Louisiana for hundreds of years and we were proven correct during Katrina. Our emotional, artistic and political secession has kept us alive inside. We don't even consider our suburbs above Lake Pontchartrain as anything more than lower Mississippi. Lafayette can come along with us, but damn the rest of this Hellhole, backwards place.
I've always thought anything north of Alexandria should be ceded to Arkansas. And if we could dig a trench around Baton Rouge and float it out to the Gulf, that would work too.
Anything west of "Old Metairie" or north of Bucktown or anywhere out on Chef Menteur hwy was a foreign country when I was growing up in New Orleans.
Going back to visit or occasionally live in NOLA as an adult, my territory grew smaller still — basically a walking/streetcar/taxi zone from Carrollton Station on the west side and my old neighborhood the lower ninth on the east.
Shoot, try living on the Westbank. Once people on the Eastbank heard you were from "Across the Bridge," you might as well have said you were from Mars.
Mind you, coming up I-10, climbing what I referred to as "The Big Up" overpass, and seeing the downtown skyline still makes my heart leap TO THIS DAY.
I'm jealous. As a librul who's lived on both coasts (for double the elitism!), I've often wished I could secede from Jesusfucktardistan.
Of course, as a D.C. resident I'll be a little bitter if Baja Arizona becomes the 51st state before the District. Ah well.
Ditto. (Except for now residing in D.C. You're on your own there.)
But there are a lot of brown people in DC.
Interestingly, southern Arizona is the Arizona portion of the Arizona Territory (CSA).
That's some good readin' over there. esp:
"The social and political condition of Arizona being little short of general anarchy, and the people being literally destitute of law, order, and protection, the said Territory, from the date hereof, is hereby declared temporarily organized as a military government until such time as Congress may otherwise provide."
– LtCol. John R. Baylor, CSA
It seems as though not much has changed since then.
As much as I generally despise Civil War re-enactments, this weekend marks the 150th anniversary of "Getting the Texans the hell out of New Mexico*", and I think I may go watch.
*Of course, it didn't work. They eventually came back. But without slavery, this time.
Hey, and they can refurb all them airplanes down at the Boneyard at Davis-Monthan, start their own Air Force, and bomb the shit out of Phoenix. Oh, wait, that's war-mongering! Sorry. *looks all contrite*
Worked for John Travolta in Battlefield Earth. A cult classic that became, well, a cult classic.
So, when Washington, Oregon and California split off to make their own country, maybe we can include Baja Arizona and have regular airlifts. Of course, Teabaggazona would probably shoot our planes out of the sky when they cross over enemy airspace.
I think ecotopia for realz would be great if it doesn't have the middle-aged crisis-y angst of the novel.
Waitaminnit, who's taking Florida? Don't tell me we're still stuck w/ the Penis-State!
A good category five hurricane should take care of it in a jiffy.
We might not see one of those before the polar ice caps melt enough to make it a moot point.
I hear relations with Cuba are warming.
I think it should just have an affair with New Mexico.
Please to the encirclement thing, as Prescott, Flagstaff, Sedona are too nice to give up.
but have you met the people in Prescott and Sedona? I'm cool with keeping Flag, though.
We all have to make some compromises… I'm not willing to let that beautiful area fall to the heathens!
Could this whole "America" thing get a re-do? Because I really do think a turkey was better choice of national bird than old weepy eagle.
So liberal that cowboy, he doesn't know how to shoot his foot.
That's Cactus Ed Abbey, hoss.
Tuscon is as hot as a motherfucker and I would love to live there based on spending a week there.
Phoenix is as hot as a motherfucker and I would hate to live there based on spending less than 24 hours in town.
Same experience. Same conclusion. The valley of the sun is just America in the heat. Tucson is some place else.
This is the plot of Hamlet 3.
loved that movie…
But if Baja Arizona seceeds, then how will they COMPLETE THE DANGED FENCE, HENNNGGH??
I am pray that this could happen.
Assuming the secession plan works, what could be a better outcome than to award the 2020 Summer Olympics to Southern Arizona?
51 is an awful number… let's make it 60…
51 – Baja Arizona
52 – Washington District of Columbia
53 – Austin (Texas will have to move the capital to Dallas, I guess)
54 – Northern California
55 – Puerto Rico
56 – Guam
57 – Virgin Islands
58 – Samoa
59 – Northern Mariana Islands
60 – Afghanistan
You forgot Rileyland!
How could you forget Israel, you awful anti-semite?! No honorary degrees for you!
I'll help Rick and Anita GoodHair pack if you can make this happen.
Woooo—eeeee! Then I'd live in the Capital of Texas!
If you don't visit the suburbs, then Dallas isn't all that bad–but that might apply anywhere.
Northern Cal, Western Oregon & Western Washington–renamed New Ecotopia.
It would be much more appropriate for Texas to move the capital to Vidor or Jasper.
Here's part of the political platform for the new liberal state, which is tentatively scheduled to be called The Liberal State for Normal People of Southern Arizona (LSNPSA):
1. Legalize prostitution.
2. Legalize casino gambling, lotteries, horse racing and keno.
3. Legalize bingo.
4. The legal drinking age will be 18.
5. Driver's licenses will be issued at 15.
6. Adult magazines may be displayed in convenience stores without a plastic covering.
7. There will be no limitations on adult bookstores, strip clubs and massage parlors.
8. Marijuana will be legal, for all purposes, not just medicinal.
9. The legal age of consent will be 16 for everyone.
10. There will be no state taxes, estate taxes, property taxes or food taxes.
Is this Baja, or Macao?
Bohica Macaca. also, too, as well.
Um… wouldn't 'no taxes' be the rule in Teabagistan, the other half of AZ?
Will the Republicans have to support secession on principle? Or is secession only sacrosanct when you are defending slavery?
hahahaha. consistency? hahahaha.
Salsa Donut?
Empanada?
Good for them. Go for it, I say.
Why stop at Arizona? Let's take a look at the rest of the states.
But who will get the kids?
I was out there on business in February and had to fly into Phoenix before driving on to Tucson. After deplaning and getting our car we wanted to stop for some lunch and as we drove along the main southward expressway the only food options appeared to be every known variety of chain restaurant. We settled on Wendy's cause Frostys for the drive, natch. I can tell you though that once in the beautiful confines of Pima County I did not eat at, let alone see, fast food chains for a full five days. It was like being in Chicago in the desert. Good food and good beer everywhere. I looked hard for fat people and did not see any of those either. Strange.
You couldn't find good food options right next to the freeway in PHX?
That's odd, because in the rest of America, all the Michelin Five Star restaurant are always located right next to the Interstate freeways…
Are you…snarking my snark by inferring that I'm somehow too snooty and lazy to find the good in Phoenix? Ouch, dude. Seriously. The point, which I didn't present in a sufficiently remedial fashion, was that one did not have to look hard to find good options in Tucson. And by good options I don't at all mean Five Stars. Hell, in Cincinnati, where I live, Five Guys looks like an interesting option.
Ha, ha–Phoenix has better restaurants than Tucson. But they're not located next to any freeways.
Phoenix has better Mexican food than Tucson. Try Barrio, in the barrio, of course: http://www.barriorestaurant.com/
Phoenix has better Vietnamese food than Tucson. Try this hole in the wall in Tempe (the best Vietnamese restaurant in America–outside of Minneapolis): http://www.yelp.com/biz/khai-hoan-restaurant-temp...
Tucson is more of a college town, which means pizza and beer, and bland ethnic food because most 18 year old college students don't have very adventurous paletes.
You want pizza?
Hell, according to the New York Times, Phoenix has the best pizza in America: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/07/dining/the-road...
BTW, according to the AZ DMV, the majority of new residents in Maricopa county are assholes from Chicago…
"Phoenix has better Mexican food than Tucson."
Them's fightin' words, mister.
Mi Nidito over on South 4th has a pretty damn good breakfast, but get there early or expect a long wait.
i'm totally moving back to Madison, WI if Dane County would be willing to secede. 61st State, motherfuckers.
Flagstaff is mainly Mormons, cowboys and alcoholic teachers trying to get their MRS degrees…
I love Flagstaff. Last time we were there (all we ever do is drive through it on our way to Las Vegas) we bought a lovely piece of glass art from a downtown gallery–with a sign in the window for the Democrat who ran against Brewer.
It's really pretty though, I stayed there last year and it was beautiful but I felt that they wouldn't truly have loved and understood me there.
They would love you in Sedona. They are tolerant people there — they even tolerate John McCain during his twice-yearly visits to his gargantuan tacky faux-adobe house!
Aww, thanks, I will visit f I can schedule it when Walnuts won't be there
"alcoholic teachers trying to get their MRS degrees… " ***
Goodness gracious, I haven't heard the term "MRS degree" since my high school English teacher asked all of us girls if that was why we were going to college. This was back, ah, shortly before our great nation's bicentennial whoop-de-doo.
***So you can be a teacher in Flagstaff without a degree?
I hope this starts a trend. Next goes Austin and certain parts of Houston (gerrymander the fuck out of that bad boy). Then New Orleans. Then finally THE WORLD.
Sorry, channeling my inner Raul Julia.
Arizona, put on your rainbow shades!
Perhaps this is why Bristle is packing up her new chin and fleeing to LA and the welcoming arms of those two nice young black men: she fears the coming secession war, and its inevitable accompanying iconic tableau featuring Jan Brewer strutting on a stage with jodhpurs and a riding crop in front of a giant flag. Or dang fence. Or Mexicans (Asians? who can tell?) in pink underwear. Also.
"Jan Brewer strutting on a stage with jodhpurs" – that's a visual I really, really did not need.
No not Baja Arizona how about Libralstan?
Just returned from a week in Tucson. AZ lawmakers would pass laws that cover the whole state except "counties with over 1.5 million people' = only Maricopa. Even the Republicans in Tuscon were getting irate. Readily available hard liquor, porn, guns and cheapest gas in the Estados Unidos- Tucson has it all!
I read in online newspaper called the PhoenixNewsTimes, which is a pretty entertaining little spot to stop by when you're using the netwebtubes, that our convict mayor-elect didn't get his pardon.
I figured committing a drive by with a gun would be cool in Arizona, you know, because criminals have 2nd. Amendment rights, too. Since the pardon was denied, I'm assuming he didn't shoot a Mexcun.
This is a terrible idea. As Lincoln famously said, a meth-lab divided against itself cannot stand.
During the years I lived in Seattle, I thought dividing Washington and Oregon along the Cascades, then forming two new states. The cool, liberal west coast state where everyone wants to live, and the ugly mess that is the other state. Call them Washington and Lincoln. No, Orewash and Fillmore.
Rearrangement of the states does not bode well for the 3 or 4 dozen of we liberals here in the Dust Bowl.
Ed. note: I really agonized over we or us. We sounds better, but following of, it seems like it should have been objective case us.
Can I get a call from one of you punning English major losers? I know there are more of you out there in wonkland than there are liberals in Oklahoma.
Weezuns?
Hey, yer the one who said "objective case," loser. . .
Clean out all of the extra words like so:
"This does not bode well for the four of *us.*"
This usually works for me without having to try to remember what in hell a transitive verb is or the difference between lie, lay, lain, and lay, laid, laid. Latin is easier.
English major people! Am I wrong?
Thank you!
I can only upfist you once for this, so to make up for it I will spend the rest of the afternoon weeping with quiet gratitude. Grammar gets me right *there,* know what I mean?
Aw, shucks. I know what you mean.
Edit: I mean: Yes, I know what you mean.
Now it's worse. I think I'll shut up.
Expertly solved, with the additional always-valuable Strunk-and-White-y reminder to "Clean out all of the extra words…"
i think overly complicating that sentence would be better:
The Rearrangement and Separation of States comprising these United States into smaller States does not, upon the completion of said Rearrangement and Separation, bode well for the potentially partially full Egg Flat of We, the few Liberals residing in the State of Oklahoma–henceforth known as the Dust Bowl and whereas a Citizen resides in the Dust Bowl, He, or She, shall be regarded as a Dust Bowl American, a Dust Bowler, or Bowl Duster but never shall They be offically regarded as Dowl Busters, Bust Dowlers, or Okefenokees.
Did you get a law degree after you realized you couldn't get a job with that BA in English? Or do you write credit agreements for bank cards?
Dear Madam and/or Sir,
At present, I am simply an uneducated and unemployed "Kept Man". Future Prospects might include, and are not limited to, Presidency of the local Shiftless Layabout Union Chapter, Looters 801 where I expect to draw a Salary of Thirty (30) Cans of Hobo Beans Per Month or One (1) Can Per Day on the Odd Months if I am Victorious in Knife Combat against the other Hobos and Stray Dogs. If elected I promise to do no more and no less than the previous President. I would greatly appreciate your Endorsement in Support of my Campaign. God Bless America; a Land where a Hobo can rise above his Inherent Worthlessness and become more Worthless still, but with a Title.
Sincerely,
Poncho Alameda Hernandez Consuela Vladimir Blitzen Pilot, Esq. III
Now that, sir, was truly awesome.
Mmm, the italics on United are a nice touch.
Boy, nothing like putting your two cents in on a grammar question, to suddenly be afraid of writing anything.
i was very bored. i'm sure there are grammatical errors in my above two comments. the older i get the more i find i don't remember how to do correctly. like grammar. and math. and functioning day-to-day. and i'm only 32.
There are sane people in Arizona? Who knew??
Cut off the water to Phoenix and watch it shrivel like a baked bowl o' worms.
And where will the refugees from Sun City move, you ask? Ay, that must needs give us pause.
My anusburger is well done, and I only wanted medium well. I'd like to speak to a manager. SOMEONE WHO HABLA EENGLASE–COMPRENDE?
Governor Drinky is about to put on her "Don't make me pull over!" face… Dream on, it will never happen.
Michigan's Upper Peninsula tries to get away from the rest of us every once in awhile (they want to call themselves "Superior" – how cute), but we'll never let go of that sweet, precious ore.
You Yoopers will get away from us the minute you burn that bridge. I dare you. But, don't forget we can retrofit some Detroit-based freighters as warships to retake you. You best call Canada.
Nothing to reinvigorate the urban poor of the rustbelt like a good old invasion flotilla. Imagine the rapening hordes of detroit afloat on the lake like some sort of mad max wet dream.
My carpenters, who happen to be teh old Az. natives, inform me that this battle has been going on for decades…..ever since Phoenix stole the capitol building from Tucson and moved it to Phoenix. (after Tucson stole the capitol from Prescott by getting one guy really drunk with a paid in advance prostitute). So, the capitol went from Prescott to Tucson to Phoenix. No one ever got over it.
Tucson's a nice enough place; I'm moving away in a month, and there are a lot of things I'll miss. The rest of AZ, however…
Oh, and this is a good article about the Baja as well:
http://www.economist.com/node/18486323
"Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland." –Edward Abbey
The Free State of New Orleans!
And every summer it starts burning.
I like how the commercial airliners have to dodge the Guard F-16s at TUS. I don't think I've ever flown into there when the ANG wasn't flying. Loud!
And you’ll probably want to keep Fort Huachuca, too.
Hey V,
Thanks for the link to digihitch.com ! Wonderful tales.
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