Phoenix

So I live in Phoenix Arizona. City of freeways and snowbirds (people who come south to escape the winter). I have no especial love for Phoenix. Indeed, a friend who was born in Chicago, raised in New Mexico and lived in Melbourne Australia for over a decade and then moved to Phoenix describes the place as a city without a soul. Nonetheless, here I am and make the best of it I must. And to be honest, there are some totally breathtaking sights to be seen here. Try sunset in winter whilst driving South on Tatum Boulevard toward Camelback Mountain. Look to the left and see a vista of sharp hill after sharp hill shrouded in fog. Or take Camelback Mountain itself. Just at sunset again, from the corner of 32nd and McDowell. It really does look like a Dromedary at rest. Or try driving along McDowell east of 52nd Street and drop a left at Galvin Parkway, which takes you past the Phoenix Zoo and the desert Botanical Gardens. There's a real beauty to the desert landscape that took me a while to appreciate.