Now, I cannot claim this stretch of videos is as complete as our journey across the country was. This video was actually done with the realtor driving and us working from the car, so we didn’t film every single house…
Usury Mountains Park
We wanted to show my parents the desert and my dad wanted to see the Superstition Mountains, so we decided to pick a patch of desert that was on the way there. We went to the edge of Mesa heading…
A Day Out in the Desert with Chris’s Parents
On the weekend when Chris’s parents were here, we decided to take them out to see the desert. We started with what one could think of as desert-lite, Papago Park, a park that is in both Tempe and Phoenix that has…
A Drive Through Mesa, Arizona
On our way to Carl’s Barber Shop and the desert, we had a drive through Mesa itself. Mesa is a place we documented a bit of on our journey, but we filmed places we had not been previously as we had stayed…
Back in the Forest of the Saguaro
In September when we were travelling through Arizona, we naturally had a look at the desert. After going to Carl’s Barber Shop to get Chris’s hair cut, we thought we would go try to find the same patch of desert…
Back at Carl’s Barber Shop in Mesa
Arizona happens to be the only place Chris got his hair cut on our journey across the US, so the lovely barber and sci fi fan, Carl, who cut his hair in September is actually now fairly local to us.…
Minor Differences: No Daylight Saving Time
A difference from anywhere else either of us have lived is that the majority of the state of Arizona does not observe daylight saving time (summer time in the UK). The rest of the US will be changing this weekend…
The Best of Our HiJenx Journey / And the Winner is…
The best beach of the journey was easily Panama City Beach, Florida: The best sunset was in Albuquerque, New Mexico: The best drive of the trip is a three way tie between driving down the Florida Keys: Driving down Florida’s Atlantic Coast from…
Regional Roundup 4: The Southwest
The Southwest was amazing. It includes New Mexico, Arizona, Southern Nevada and Southern Utah. I think this was our favorite region. It has gorgeous weather in that it is hot or warm with the most days of sun per year out of…
Day 110: Phoenix, Arizona – Chicano Art and a Free Haircut
We checked out the recommendation of the lovely woman we met the night before. We saw a display of chicano art. Chicano is a fairly political word that was new to Chris, but familiar to me as someone who did…