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Day 3 in Scottsdale AZ; Terravita Road... Activity
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The walk back from the fitness center (Terravita Country Club) to the house. Activity
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The basic walk from the house to Albertsons Activity
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New walk Activity
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This was a nice walk around Terravita and to this outdoor music performance center which I forget the name. Unfortunately, the buzz I got from the nice walk was killed when the asshole cop told me that I was crossing against a red light and the ticket would be $146 'you think about that next time!' he told me. Fuck you too, pig. No, I didn't get a ticket. But it confirms this is a VERY conservative city...I have never heard of anyone ticketing you for that - for real. Activity
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There is nothing carefree about the Carefree Highway, which had no sidewalk, and while the speed limit is 45 mph, those cars were going at least 70 mph. Did the walk, but never again. I'm going to stick to this gated community of Terravita from now on. Activity
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Somehow I lost my way on the gravel walking path and ended up on the sidewalks of the golf course - which pedestrians are not allowed to walk on (what the fuck?) and of course there are no signs or anything; three people asked what I was doing there. Lovely time here. I'm never coming back after this vacation is over! Activity
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Go Rosie!
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Did this walk while I was bored, the walk was HOT! Activity
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And the walk back - it was just that exciting. Activity
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I remember this theme from when I was in the hospital for 2 weeks!
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Another one of the soaps I followed closely back then...
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We are going home on Saturday afternoon. In some ways I am relieved, in others I am worried about what's next...now that I have to face going home, having to figure out what to do with my life, etc., things I wanted to put off for a while longer. I guess at some point we all have to face things that we don't want to. This trip was great for my mom so I am not complaining to her about the lack of things to do, the frustration of not being able to meet anyone - or even SEE anyone gay here in spite of months of getting pumped and ready for this trip...that was such a disappointment that I can not describe it...I had been waiting for so long to go someplace where there are different people, and different places that I might be able to come into contact with someone I might want to talk to. I did the research on Phoenix, I looked at the photos of downtown on the internet, I looked at the gay newspaper online. Then I got here and discovered that, while this is the Phoenix metro area, it is on the extreme northeast corner, and Phoenix proper is a good 50 miles away. The closest I got to even seeing it was from the airport, and I never made it to the parts of Scottsdale that were supposedly gay populated (again, another 35 miles from here). This has to be the worst example of a city that has developed so quickly without any planning in terms of moving people around effectively and economically. If you do not have a vehicle here, you are living in primitive times. There are no buses. The closest bus stop to this area is 14 miles away. Walking is confined to the inside of this gated community, Terravita, because the highways here don't even have shoulders to walk on - just dirt and rocks on the sides of the road. Nothing here was built for the volume of traffic, people and development that appears to have taken place over the last decade - 90% of it at least. The sense of isolation here is bad enough that Duluth is looking really diverse and metropolitan after two weeks here. I have not seen anyone of a different color, anyone young, anyone gay...for being such a diverse state, I didn't see any of it here. Interestingly enough I was here just long enough to form some different ideas on the whole Mexican immigration debate. We went for one trip to Tucson, AZ; about 100 miles from here and talked to some people whom I won't name...anyways these folks were extremely well off, both being lawyers with a successful practice. They went on to discuss building their dream home in the mountainside of Tucson with great views of the city (again, another community in the middle of nothing) and how much it's costing them to hire illegal immigrants to hang their doors. And these people are both lawyers, who are complaining about having to pay these day laborers wages so insulting to begin with that I couldn't even listen to this conversation I was getting so angry. There are many aspects of society that have lost all touch with humanity and what makes us who we are. The drive back here hardened me when it came to the extreme affluence here and how some of these people take advantage of those on the other extreme right down to the last penny so they can build their 'dream home' at the expense of someone else who gets to live in a quanset hut or trailer. That soured my interest in living here someday. Part of it is the weather, and the people here can drive these fancy cars and have these expensive houses all year round as trophies and show off 'look at what I've got' stuff. You're only important if you can produce, if you can make enough to have the things that get people to notice that. If you don't drive this car, work at this job, live at this address then you're nobody - and while I never met any gay people here, I know enough about gay men to realize they would fit right into that mindset of people who buy into that bullshit. As much as I don't like the people who move to Duluth for the sake of free handouts and everything, the other extreme here - the ultra rich who think everyone else should bow as they're coming towards them - bother me even more. It wasn't all bad. I went for a lot of walks. I think today alone I walked/ran 16 miles. I got really tan. My mom got a chance to relax and take her mind off of work for two weeks, which she definitely needed to do. Our differences are becoming more apparent. She can be here and be fine with the seclusion. I HAVE to be able to get out and go places, or at least know that I can if I want to. This location is fine for her, because her sister is here; for me, part of it is the shock of finding out how far away everything was, and having to give up on the interest of seeing Phoenix and the actual city...I think that set the tone of negativity for this trip. Had I known how far away those places were from here, and that it would be very unlikely that we'd even go downtown or anyplace fun, I would have come here with a different mindset. City of Duluth's New Logo: 
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Another hot day Activity
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