11 little things a girl from Kansas loves about living in Phoenix…

- desert plants like cacti and palo verdes
- wearing my “summer clothes” year round
- amazing sunsets
- sounds of movement: traffic, light rail, and helicopters
- downtown is flat but surrounded by mountains
- biking to school
- seeing planes que up for landing at Sky Harbor- the tunnel on the 10
- being about 5 hours from both LA and Nogales
- desert driving gives me the big sky feeling of my Flint Hills
- palm trees

From Phoenix (2010)