Day 30 - Phoraging Foenix

The stormy weather still lurks, as we head down I-17 towards Foenix.

OK all you Canadian Hockey players - life is possible in the Foenix burbs . Ice rink: check, place that serves pizza and beer: check. What more do you need?. Hey Mar, maybe the Sharpshooters should relocate here? It's November and we can still eat lunch outside. This restaurant beats the Thirsty Penguin all to heck. (see below)

Our lunch at Humble Pie - as recommended by the very nice Toyota courtesy van driver who brought us here while Truck is getting it's mid trip check up and oil change. Note the quickness of motion of Russ' hand. It really was very good - no we didn't finish the fries - and some pizza came home for future lunching.

After lunch, we discover Major League Baseball's Spring Training Facility. The stadium is on the left, and to the right is the Bad Pitchers' Pit. They used to also keep crocodiles in the Bad Pitchers' Pit until the SPCA objected. There is some thought that Spring Training may move to Florida, where alligators can be freely used to encourage pitchers.

Onto the forage! We are only slightly distracted by the sudden squalls and rainbows. We are unhappy with the quality of the proteins at our local Sedona Whole Foods - it is actually pretty shocking - so we are forced further afield to AJ's Fine Foods and Lee Lee Asian Market in the northern subdivs of Foenix.

Just the sign you want to see when you've been repeatedly hit with massive rain squalls.

The rainbows are amazingly persistent.

This is Carefree Center. They are Carefree here because they have a cactus deterrent. This is their top-secret cactus launch facility. The big system on the right is their multiple reentry vehicle launcher, designed to rain prickly heck down on anyone degrading the Carefreeness of Carefree.

It has been a wild weather day - enroute home the temperature dips down to 3C, and then as low as 2C, slushy bits are in the air. Thankfully Sedona remains out of the snow zone - but we hear that further up hill the Flagstaffers aren't so lucky. Wonder if they still return their shopping carts when it snows?

We reward ourselves with Wendy's restaurant find of the trip so far: Elote Cafe. Don't let the basic cantina decor fool you - these guys can really cook. This is their unbelievably delicious fresh huitlacoche corn soup. If you must know, huitlacoche is a fungal gall infecting cobs of corn, and is a Mexican delicacy. Our good friend Joaquin introduced us to this a couple of years ago, but only canned huitlacoche is available in Vancouver. This is the real thing, and it is delicious.

Elote means "corn on the cob".

 

 

 

 

 

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