Hi there. Pretty new here, but also new to Arizona. It's a hellscape, yeah, but I personally think it's not too bad. Came here a year or so ago, and some notes are:
- It is a dry heat.
- The people here are usually the nicer kind of redneck if they must be one, but that may just be me being white.
- I have not met a single person who didn't live within a couple dozen miles of either Phoenix or Tuscon. Out of those who live here, of course.
- The national parks are pretty beautiful at the right time.
Now for the weird shit.
Just under a year ago, around November, my (now) girlfriend and I went out camping up at White Tank Regional Park. Not at any of the prespecified areas; nooooo, we were too confident for that. We were gonna have a friend drop us off with some gear in two backpacks, and pick us back up later. We were gonna stay for about a week, tops, so we had
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