Day 7: Phoenix is a Horrendous City

It's a well known fact that on Randy Johnson's first day in Pinstripes that he was greeted on a New York City street by a cameraman who wanted to film him. Randy prompted told the man to get of his face and knocked the guy's camera to the ground. Now that I've been to Phoenix - a town that Randy played in for years and plays in now for the second time in his career - I know why he did that.....It's because he had never seen a camera in his life before...because people who visit Phoenix don't bring cameras because they do not want to capture the horror that is this horrendous City.

We made our way from Sedona down Route 17 on the last full day of our trip and stopped at the Cliff Castle Casino for a little hold em. I played poker for approximately 30 minutes or so against people that were clearly townies that frequented the small Indian casino on a daily basis. I ended up losing $10, but really think I could have won a substantial sum if we had stayed there longer since everyone played every single hand.
Near mid-day we reached Phoenix and it was it's typical over 100 degree summer day. We drove around the City and were surprised by the lack of people in the City during the day. Maybe it was the heat. Maybe it was because everyone already knew what we knew. That Phoenix sucks. There was NOTHING at all to do there. So after driving around for a little while and getting lost in Phoenix's ghetto - yes, they have a ghetto - we decided to go to Scottsdale to check out the Botanical Garden.

Thank god we made that decision, because it literally made our day a whole lot better. We walked through the Garden and saw over 50 different type of species of Catci. I had originally thought that there was only one type, so I was intrigued by seeing the different types. While we were there we visited Indian huts, saw a range of animals, grounded up some beans and nearly died from heat exhaustion - another common theme on our trip.

I wish I had more to detail the last full day of our wonderful Arizona trip, but Day 7 - the Botanical Garden not included - sucked snake balls....ya know, if snakes have balls.

Tune in tomorrow for the story on how the Italian Stallion was nearly detained and sent to Guanantamo to serve as the base of a naked terrorist pyramid.