Scottsdale Arizona - "It's not so bad being trendy everyone who looks at me is my friend"

Look through the paper, get on azcentral.com, "what do you wanna do?" Do. Do. Do. Gotta be proactive, gotta be partaking, gotta be acting, gotta be performing, playing, doing. The great play goes on and you must contribute a verse. This is your life and you have one chance, I'm the only example of me that will ever exist... If I want something to happen I'll get off my ass and make it happen. But I'm all alone, outside all day, I have nowhere to be and no commitments tying me down, well shit; I'm happy to just enjoy that for a little while. I don't have that strange sense of urgency I used to get. There's something real peaceful about there being very little planned in front of me. I guess the most obvious way to articulate it is freedom. I feel real calm with everything, yet when I get back I got a job to get back on, school to go to come October and a fuck load of debt the four years after. This period just feels isolated somehow. My first time truly on my own?

Okay so I know if you're reading this you're probably gonna skip through the boring shit like that above paragraph. Third day in Arizona; mapping, exploring, fishing (I'll be surprised if anyone gets that, if you don't, fear not it's a terrible joke which at best would result in a week exhalation of breathe an a vague twitch of those 15 special muscles. Similar to how a corpse still releases air - similar to that only the guy died jacking off, so the endorphins were flowing when it happened...I think that's how I'd like to go...) Basically I found me some public transport to run down into the denser part of town (sweet!).

It's astounding how much TV and video games prepare you for how everything looks out here, it's like being a in a perpetual state of de ja vu except I'm not a black guy called CJ stealing cars. The scale is pretty indescribable. "Huge" just doesn't do it justice. Each city is built in what is essentially a grid system, leaving squares of land in between the roads that form the grid, these are used for housing estates or strip malls. A strip mall being a central car park and shops surrounding the edge. This is the construct of pretty much all of Scottsdale. Long roads edged with huge houses and strip malls. What more could the human being need?