Tuesday, November 1, 2016

TUESDAY TRAVELS

We moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1972 and lived there until 1987.

Then, in 2013 we moved there again.

It had changed a lot in those 26 years.

In 1972, downtown Phoenix was a quiet place that was "dead" in the evenings.

No more.


Nowadays it is a modern thriving city with a vibrant inner city atmosphere.


Restaurants, theatres, bars and clubs, and more and more condos and apartments fill the downtown area these days.




Arizona Center brings a park atmosphere to the heart of this city of a million and a half residents.

(The metro area brings the population up to well over 4 million, as of 2010.  Probably more now.)




Landscapers have brought a touch of beauty to all the modernist surroundings.



Not a bad place to live, if you can afford it.

And if you can stand month after month of living in a climate of triple-digit temperatures.

We couldn't.

We only lasted 10 months before returning to our refuge in Prescott Valley once again.