I've been in Phoenix since Monday getting my son set up at ASU but haven't seen one GL on the roads. Where is everyone? I'm going up to Sedona tomorrow, maybe I'll see one up there. BTW is too darn hot for me, how do you guy's get used to this heat? Joe

 

I am in North Scottsdale.... About 25 minutes from ASU...

You are right... it is darn hot... Now you see why the 3 zone climate control is nice to have... Along with the Infared windows.

Sedona should be nice. Its gonna be at least 10 degrees cooler up there then it is down in the Valley. Only 98 degrees as a high.

 

Thanks Danno, 98 will feel like a January day in Boston!

 

I have been in Boston in January.... Nearly froze my walnuts off... The fellas ran and hid... Had a nice nor easter while I was there too... Only dropped a couple of feet of snow . I was stuck in my hotel room in Haverhill for a few days.

The one thing that we have going for us here in AZ is that the air is fairly dry... So 98 should not feel too bad. Low humidity means that your sweat works in your favor...

 

I am with you Danno...110 degrees with 10% humidity is my choice anytime.

Spent 7 years in Hilton Head with temps only in the low 80's to mid 90's but humidity in highs of 60-90%...was soaking wet on the golf course all the time. Also spent most of adult life in the Wash DC area and that area is like a steam bath in the summer.

 

After being in Orlando, FL for business one year in August, I have a new found appreciation for the expression, "But it's a dry heat".

 

As Danno indicated, you'll probably have to come to Scottsdale or Paradise Valley (locally known, affectionately, as "Snobsdale" and "Parasite Valley") to see GLs. Just tooling around town and taking my kids to school, I'm eyeing between 8-12 GLs, all but one I'm sure of I think are 450s.

Enjoy Sedona! I hope you took an hour and went to Jerome as well, a very cool little town. It's the one barely hanging on to the side of the mountain, just west of Sedona.

 

We did July at WDW one year because a friend from the UK and his family could only get that time off to meet us there. I dried off by taking a shower. Not happening again. The only thing worse was San Antonio in the summer.

BTW, it was also one of my LX470 cross-countries. For the cost of gas, I sure wish I'd have had a GL320 then!

 

Visited a friend in Prescott some years ago and she had us take the mountain roads through Jerome to Sedona. We spent about an hour in Jerome...fascinating little place. Great views of the landscape also.

 

When I had my friends from the UK over to Phoenix, I took them to Jerome, then through the back way into Prescott for dinner at the Golden Horseshoe (the corn chowder's better than cabbage soup, I swear!). They got to see some snow in Arizona while they were here (whilst they were here?) and were very excited by it.

These four corners and Nevada are truly some of the most beautiful, rugged places in the lower-48. (I've worked in Alaska - different league.)

 

We ate dinner at the Golden Horseshoe also...can't remember if we had the Corn Chowder but the food was great!

 

The road to Jerome is 89A which is a great motorcycle road. I ridden it several times. After the first time, I bought a t-shirt in Jerome that said "I rode 89A". 152 turns in 12 miles...great motorcycle road.

 

We were in Alaska the week of July 22. Amazing scenery! I wish the weather had been better (it rained the whole week) but we still had a nice time and want to go back.

 

Looks like we're swapping kids. Mine is going off to Harvard next month. He doesn't own any cold weather clothing including a jacket. We're trying to figure out how soon he'll need that kind of stuff.

 

I worked a cargo ship out of Seattle to the Aleutians (and one shot up to the Pribilovs in the Bearing Sea). Those islands are gorgeous and that summer the weather - for the most part - was better in Alaska than in Seattle. I turned 18 in Dutch Harbor. We did pull in to Chignik once (mainland). That was like sailing in to a flooded Grand Canyon. But it is normally cold, wet, and miserable in Alaska. And the mosquitos carry off dogs and small children.

STP

 

He'll want that sort of stuff to be "in style" anyway, so good he doesn't already have it because the style will be local and he'll surely find out in time.

 

Man, all this talk about the southwest U.S. is making me envious. I love that part of the country. The Chicago area is a nice enough place to live, but the climate and terrain are not the selling points. The local garbage dump is the closest thing we have to a mountain (or a hill).

 

This ought to make you drool some more...just 10-15 minutes from my home in NW Las Vegas. We do have more than the strip here...:-)

 

Is that the mountain you see from Bartlett or the Carol Stream area?

What a hoot that little site is!

 

I snagged this off of a local web site, but basically this is about an hour and a half from my house.

 

I'm in East Mesa about 25 minutes from ASU. And I prefer this heat to TX, FL, etc...anytime!!

 

Looks like Sedona...beautiful country!

 

Well we just got back to Phoenix from Sedona and I did see 2 GL 450's. A black one passed me doing about 90 somewhere up in the higher elevations on rte 17 about 45 minutes south of the Sedona exit. I later saw the same one parked on the main strip. The second was a pewter one in front of me going way up to that Oak Creek Vista at 6400 ft. elev. Very nice ride up there! No traffic per se and we had a good time, ate lunch at the Cowboy Grill or something like that and later pigged out on ice cream for the ride back. And yes, I heard that Jerome was nice also but not enough time today, hopefully next time. Danno was right, it was still 96 deg up there at 6400 ft! Crazy but still cooler than down here in Tempe. Tomorrow we'll ride around Scottsdale and Paradise Valley to do a GL count and report back.

 

Congrats on your son's admission to Harvard, he should be proud of himself for that accomplishment! As far as clothing he'll need sweatshirts in late Sept into November then by Thanksgiving it can be near freezing at night so a parka will be needed but the temps are all over the place so it's always layers of clothes to put on and off. The real cold stuff comes in late Dec through Jan and into Feb. Probably easiest for him to buy stuff as the temperatures drop this fall, lots of places nearby in Harvard Square. If I can be of any assistance while he's in Boston please let me know! I live only 20 miles out of the city. Joe

 

That is a wild ride...the car we took to Prescott was a Z3 but since there were 3 of us, I drove her car. It was a older Toyota or Honda and believe me it was no fun taking those curves in that car. I would have loved to have done that road in the Z3...:-)