Blogs from Phoenix, Arizona, United States, North America - page 26

7 months, 5 continents, 3 credit cards, 2 backpacks, 1 goal. Do as the locals do and bring it all home with me. Ok so I'm not planning on eating melon glazed larvae or wiping my arse with my hand but for all intents and purposes, this trip will focus primarily on the foreign cultures we visit. It has become apparent to me that after graduating college and entering the so called "real world," I need to step out of the bubble I call my daily life and and a big giant leap into the literal REAL WORLD. Initially I made a simple list of goals, things I wanted to accomplish in order to make this trip a success. As it turns out, the extreme adventure list of Bungy Jumping, Sky Diving and Whitewater Rafting will ... read more

Wow...September 24th was a doozy of a day. We visited the Phoenix Zoo and wanted to get an early start because the temperatures were supposed to top 100 degrees. Well, the weather forecast was right....it was over 100 degrees with a bright, hot unrelenting sun today. Absolutely NO breeze whatsoever. We arrived at the zoo shortly after it opened at 9:00am and it was already in the high 80's low 90's. The zoo was nice....there is an open African Savannah where giraffes, oxen, ostriches, etc roamed around together. The zoo has nice, wide paths and they allow people to bring their bikes. So, families were riding together all over the zoo. Kim and I wandered around the zoo, snapping pictures and just thoroughly enjoying the day. After adding to our now bright pink,red sunburns.....we decided to ... read more

Gisteren in de woestijn stad Scottsdale (voorstad van Phoenix) aangekomen... Lekker gezwommen, en 's avonds naar een (duur) shopping mall geweest. Nu zijn we naar Phoenix gereden om hier een beetje rond te kijken... Morgen op weg naar Sedona!!! Groetjes, Jacinta en Ramon... read more

we just bought our tickets to Africa. We are flying to Capetown on Sunday. We are planning to travel from there overland to Kenya over the next few months.... read more

For Spring Break my sophomore year some friends and I went to went to Arizona for spring break. We got a great deal at a real nice hotel on a golf course. We went to spring training baseball games almost every day, went to an NHL game, climbed camel back mountain, and of course went out on the town (it was spring break after all)! Jordan and I left from Eau Claire on a Thursday after class and we drove the rest of Thursday, all day Friday and most of Saturday. It was the first time that I had ever done a real long road trip like that. On the way out there we went through Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico. On the way back we wanted to see the Grand Canyon so we went up ... read more