Courtyard By Marriott Phoenix/Mesa

... any pictures as evidence, though, do you. No no, we were incognito cute.

Here's a tip for anyone coming to Phoenix: get signed up on the Internet for Groupon and get email alerts for special deals in the valley. We saved a bunch of money by getting half price tickets for tonight. It works like this, you have 24 hours to purchase and if they get enough buyers the deals on, if not, you're not charged. So you either buy or ignore with a new deal coming out every day.

... Canyon Lake and 80 miles from Phoenix, Roosevelt Lake and Dam, built in 1911 to control flooding.

The whole Salt River to Roosevelt Lake area lies within the Tonto National Forest and every parking lot requires you display your $6 Recreational Pass. We probably saw 200 signs, "Did You Buy Your Pass?", "Cars Without Passes Will Be Ticketed," "Cars MUST Display Tonto National Forest Recreation Pass," with the closest place to purchase such pass being BACK IN PHOENIX. I'm sure ...

... highlands are drier and generally thinly vegetated except during the rainy season.Only the eastern and southern highlands conform to the image of Ethiopia as a featureless desert.
- Capital city is Addis Ababa with a population of about 3.1 million.
- Official language is Amharic. English is widely spoken.
- Main religions are Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, Islam and Protestant Christianity. Ethiopia also had a ...

... was a sudden and unexpected mass exodus to grab these huge boxes off the pallet (the security guard was yelling that you couldn't take the bikes off the pallet off until 5am – but nobody listened to him) so I managed to manhandle one in the trolley, andthen put my hand on another until the security guard had calmed down and I could wheel it away from his watchful eye. By then 100's and 100's of people had flooded the aisles of Walmart and I was ...

... of fries, 1 soda & 1 milkshake. Not to worry. On the road again we had been seeing billboard signs since just out of El Paso advertising 'The Thing' at exit 322 on the Arizona Interstate, with hints that it could be an extraterrestrial and some spooky eyes in picture also...
Of course us being us, we just had to go there and pay out $3.50 entry for all of us to go and see ...

... California at the Thousand Trails membership park - closest one to 'home'

11/29/2009 - Lake Menifee, RPI park in Nicolaus, California

12/06/2009 - Morgan Hill, California at the Thousand Trails memberhip park

12/13/2009 - somewhere along the Pismo coast

12/20/2009 - Manteca, California

12/26/2009 - Catalina Spa, RPI park in Desert Hot Springs, California

01/02/2010 - Emerald Cove, Parker, California
Mesa, Arizona, United States thesairs

... it to our website.  Throughout our trek, I would post diary entries with pictures back to a website, and schools, as well as armchair travelers, would follow our journey and interact with us via email and a message board (the site was hosted and developed at ASU).  10 years ago, I don't think there were any travel blog sites.  I posted back this picture from the taxi as well as a newspaper story about Tanzania outlawing sex with donkeys in ...

... months and lived with a couple roommates that got stoned about five times a day. I recall that I often made good money from them by overcharging them for pizzas when they were so wasted. A small price to pay for having to deal with their **** on a daily basis. Anyway, this is probably my 5th or 6th visit to Mesa since then and I never tire of it here. Beautiful weather, spring training baseball, and a few casinos to play some Texas ...

... going. So life was going well until Welke hit the ball into some plants. Well, Nass went looking for the ball. She found it and totally took a spill falling over the chain. Yeah, injury number 1 and we weren't even 24 hours into the trip. Actually Nass is fine, she just got a nice sized bruise on her thigh. So yeah, that was mini golfing. Check out the amazing pictures. Super fun. We went back to the ...

... up over many meals, where the Jewish mother inside of her never let us pay a penny. We had a blast swimming in pools, meeting her friends, and catching a baseball game. It was short but sweet. Myra, we had a great time seeing you! It was great to help you transition into a new phase of your life. You are wonderful. Oh, and by the way send me the pictures and I'll post them on here.