DATELINE: phoenix, az                                                    

Author: Ilteris

7 am. On our way to grand canyon and las vegas. Got up at 4.30am in order to fool phoenix morning rush hour and be able to arrive early to vegas. Yesterday was fun. We arrived tucson around afternoon and decided to visit titan missile museum. I am talking about a underground facility which had a nuclear missile ready to be used in the defense of an attack from former ussr. It wasn`t easy for me to appreciate any kind of weapon even it's in the name of defense but thinking US built this facility in 1962 was mind blowing. This place was abandoned in 1982 but one cannot help but imagine what they might have now with all these advanced technologies.

I really like tucson in general. Karl`s friend Bruce and his wife Danielle were kind enough to welcome us in their place overnight. Great people! Bruce also took us to a cute italian place on 4th avenue. Garlic toast was delicious. The population of tucson is around a million. I was imagining it smaller but it`s pretty large. It had a charleston feeling to it in some ways. Sunny weather, cute girls, smiling people. It has definitely different properties too. Spread out structure, large roads and gunshops. I wish I could come here when utku was studying at the university of arizona.

Now we are heading to grand canyon and hopefully we are going to make it to vegas around evening. I am excited!