Following a good breakfast of pancakes and fruit, we leave
Tucson and drive to Phoenix on I-10. The normal speed limit on the interstates
is 75 and that is what most people drive, or faster, so I feel compelled to
keep up. But I have noticed it really cuts into gas mileage.
We have been told that Phoenix is hot; the daily
temperatures have been hovering around 100. We arrive at the home of Gloria’s
cousin and her husband, Karen and Bob Fryberger about noon. They have prepared
a lunch of “sloppy joes”. After we have eaten, they take us to a lake an hour
or so away, to see the scenery. It is a “high desert” area with limited
rainfall and many kinds of cactus and other low-water plants. The local people
refer to the “monsoon” season and the dry season, which we are in presently.
In the evening we wind our way to the top of a nearby hill
where there is a lookout point over the city. We get there a few minutes before
sunset and watch as the sun drops below the horizon and the city lights up in
the dark. The greater Phoenix metropolitan area, which includes nearby cities
such as Mesa, Glendale, Chandler, and Scottsdale, is about 65 miles long and 45
miles wide, and the population is around 4.6 million. We talk about the problem
of providing water for all these people.
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