I went to Arizona on Google Maps. Yet again, I must mention how much I love exploring different countries on Google Earth. I also popped off to Alabama for a little bit, but that's not what this post is about.
It's is about going to Arizona for no money, and just a few words typed into the Google Maps search engine.
But before we start that, I must mention how much I like small, tiny towns. It may have something to do with the fact I come from the biggest city in New Zealand, but I do just adore small towns. Anything below about 12,000 people makes my heart flutter and fall in love with it instantly.
So, a few words about how I view Arizona after Google Mapping it:
It's freaking dry. Of course I knew it was basically desert before I travelled, but I didn't think people lived in an actual
desert. Maybe it's my coastal, undesert New Zealand mind taking over, but how can you live without the sea? With all that humidity and desert and poor excuses for trees and bunches of tumble weed and a place that looks basically like the Apocalypse came through it?
No offense Arizona (or offense) but it's just so..........
un.
Anyway, first off on my tour of Arizona was the small village/town of Cornville. And yes, it is actually called Cornville, although it looks too dry for anything to actually grow there. No offense, or anything.
Oh, and apparently John McCain was/is a resident there. Oh, damn. I don't like it much anymore.
But it's a small town, so of course I have to love it. If it wasn't in the middle of a desert, then I'd move there. Or maybe not. I don't know. It's cute. Like a dead bunny, you know?
And can I just say that who the hell would have a vacation home in the middle of a desert? I mean, don't people go on vacations in summer? Wouldn't it be like death warmed up?
Oak Creek, Cornville is a little bit greener, but still.
Okay, next stop is a little nearer the Arizona border and Mexico, which I didn't actually know extended that far across the bottom. Anyway....
It's called Sunnyside (I picked it because of the name) and turned out to basically just be just W Montezuma Canyon Rd, which was actually only half down on Google Street View.
It's not actually a town. Well, it probably is and I just can't find it through all the greenery.
Anyway, it's cute. And Arizonaist.
Now, we're off the Wickenburg, Arizona, which is closer to Phoenix, AZ, than any of the others, and only Street Views the Wickenburg Way through it.
Ever noticed how all of Arizona looks pretty much the same? Dry, hot, and to much spoilt New Zealand brain, unlivable.
Well, at least this one has a fast food restaurant of which I cannot read the name of.
Except I'm not sure if that actually is a fast food restaurant.
So, last stop is not a small town. It's Phoenix, Arizona, and which took me two tries to spell right.
And which looks bigger, if not any less deserty, than the rest of the towns I've/we've visited. It's interesting. It just looks so....sunny. Everything is so sunny. Like the middle of Australia. Alice Springs. There we go. Good comparison.
Uh huh. Don't think I'll be moving to Arizona anytime soon. Stick within traveling distance of the beach in summer, thanks.
And that's the end of our less enthusiastic experience to Arizona with the Eilish commentator.
Hopefully no one from Arizona reads this, or I could have a vicious fight on my hands.
Or, actually, if anyone from Arizona is reading this, could you please tell me this:
Does it ever
rain there?
Well, apart from everything, it's quite a cool state. Hmm.
Next Stop: (when I can get around to it) *Waves finger around a map of the US*
OhioInteresting. Never been there.