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The Quiet
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My wife and I live southeast of Phoenix in
sunny Chandler, Arizona.
She is an applied statistical research consultant, and I design
industrial life-safety, security, and communications systems.
When time permits, we backpack the mountains and camp out under
the stars, though mostly we're tied down to the daily grind. The
cats don't help, either.
Some of our favorite parts of Arizona are the Sedona /Oak Creek
Canyon area; the Sunset Crater area near Flagstaff (there are
over 60 volcanoes there not considered extinct); old mining towns
like Bisbee and Jerome; and the Navajo and Hopi Nation tribal
lands. Locally, we usually thrash our mountain bikes in the
desert when it's cool enough, and occasionally attend the annual
Chandler Ostrich Festival.
Our weather naturally lacks much rainfall, so we Xeriscaped
the front garden and added drip-irrigation around the place. It's
just mindless, paying taxes and utilities, so that people can put
fluoridated drinking water on plants to make it look like
anywhere else, but here. The plants don't get as many cavities, I
suppose.
You have just got to love rocks to live here, because who's
really comfortable at 123°F /50°C? The doppler radar picture for the Valley of the Sun gives
a little more weather detail for the Phoenix Metro-miasma, which
is continuing to develop all the drive-by charm of Los Angeles,
but without the beach-front property
(see real-time cctv of Phoenix freeways on the ADOT TrafficCam page).
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© C. Jeppeson 1995
Last Updated: 04/14/02
