Who likes Cacti?

I have left the city of angels in my wake and I am now currently situated in Tuscon, Arizona. I'm staying at a tourist house (its not quite a boarding house, its not quite a b & b, its definately not a lodge, its just a residential house where tourists stay). It is really nice and has everything you could ever need, wireless, tv, fridge, bathroom etc. except there is one thing, the ceiling is really low. I'm not a super tall guy (186cm at last check) but my head almost hits the roof and I have to sit down in the shower. I never thought I'd envy short people, but I have to admit it would come handy around here. Seriously though I'm just nitpicking its all really good and I'm only here for a week until I move into my Uni accomidation.

I drove here with my folks, (who currently live in California) and all up the journey took about 8 hours. I've harped on about the mountains before but they are truly spectacular and I think I actually managed to hold the camera still enough to get some good pictures. Arizona is pretty much all desert and I was pretty stoked to see my first cactus. However there are literally 7 billion cacti along the way and it would be nice to see a palm tree or a banana or something. But the mountains have the cacti's back on the scenery front. Oh and my mum gave me some advice...

'Don't touch them they're prickly'
Thanks mum.

There are some pretty good radio stations throughout regional Arizona, mostly classic rock which suits me fine, but occasionally there are patches where all you can get is Country and Christian Rock. I chose to turn the radio off.

Today I went to a tourist town called Tombstone which is aparently the home of the great Wyatt Earp. Yep. I went there. Yep.

Around the university area of Tuscon there are a couple of different sections, but the one I visited last night was the hippie village. There are three bong shops and five more tattoo parlours. Oh and a hydroponics store,. I'm not making any comment one way or another I just wanted to point it out.

In other news the ringtone on my phone is now 'White Room' by Cream. It is totally awesome.

ctb