Moving to Phoenix area....Anything I should know? Tell me, please

[Satori]

I'll be moving to Phoenix in 3 weeks to start a new life cycle (lost savings, lost business, home foreclosed). Don't know where I be living but .....
I know I'll be doing some prospecting, exploring & MD'ing (have to get a MD). Anything interesting about the people or Arizona in general you want to tell
me would be appreciated.

Best regards,

Satori (David)

 

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[Cachefinder]

Yes 8)

The summers are REALLY HOT!

Welcome

Cachefinder~

 

[sniffer]

learn to do your grocery shopping late at night. no joke, it's true

 

[Born2Dtect]

Arizona does not do day light savings time. Great place to fing gold, meteorites and rose hips? (little copper formations). My wife is from Yuma. I have swam on Christmas and New Years day near Yuma. Cars last forever no road salt. Dust devils are cool. That about does it.

Ed D.

 

[DanB]

Don't chastise me......I am nearly telling it the way it is....in and around phx when on the freeways most of us Do not use turn signals.....The reason for this is... if you want to change lanes ....just do it..... because when you put your blinker on.....the guys in the other lane almost all ways speeds up.....from behind rather than slowing down....this kind of leads to secondly.....

secondly......we drive fast out here.....so if you drive 55.....stay in the slow lane.....speed limit is 75 on the highway.....normal speed 85+......this is no joke.....
we had a guy actually film himself speeding on the freeway .....he made 3 passes in excess of 200mph, his top speed was 221mph.. and he jokes that it was done on pump gas....not racing fuel.....true story....last I looked the video was still on you tube.....

here is a bit of trivia.....phx has the highest percentage rate of (Ferrari, lambo and corvettes) exotic car crashes and the vast majority are out of state drivers...... since most owners and renters of these vehicles are from out of state visiting during the winter months.....they are just not use to the higher speeds when they open it up.....yes speed kills.....and we have a lot of crosses on the sides of the freeways to remind you to remember that each cross marks a death.......SLOW down,,,





db

 

[Skywola]

You might want to check this out:

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,277830.0.html

 

[DanB]

Back to what I was talking about earlier SLOW DOWN SNOW BIRDS......another out of state driver shows off his talent........not even a week went by and look............

db

 

[djui5]

Nice picture Dan, but that isn't a Testarossa. It's a 348, which was built right before the very popular 355.

 

[tertiaryjim]

Check out Treasure Marks/Signs Posts on this site are awesome and you will find a lot of this stuff in AZ. Jim

 

[DanB]

yea.....I thought it looked a little funny but couldn;t put my finger on it......any ways.....that.s just how i named it,,,,, when I stored that file to my computer...mental reference....I am not a Ferrari expert.....

but I did drive this over the weekend......

 

[Cynangyl]

buy bottled water!! and lots of it....plenty warm around there and the water is NASTY....at least it was years ago when I spent a few months there! lol Wish I had been into detecting back then to give you some tips in that respect. Best of luck to you on your new adventure!

 

[olepossum]

papago park and encanto park big old parks south mountain park palos verde river prospecting find where old grey hound dog track was the three parks and the race track good places to md side arm law in arizona might check first when i was there if no felony you could carry it on side like cowboy keep eye out for rattlers of course every knows they bad news scorpions some venomus and some venomus lethal and black widow spiders very painfull and venomus and lethal and leave the pretty colored lizards alone that look like indian bead work they are poisinous called gilla monsters there are prospecting clunand md clubs in and around phoenix and say off of van buren st 16th and van buren hooker heaven bad palce and see if arnolds pickles are still in business they are good good places to shop pic and save smittys and find the cowboy restaraunt and tavern it is on bell road i believe around 35 th st oh yeah there is old tuscon and rawhide wild west towns stay away from scottsdale uppity people just across the canal from pheonix and they drain the canals once a year for maintenace and look for stolen cars and bodies there are old parts of towns old houses and i believe you can run a sluice box in just about every creek that come out of the hills and find color definetly get a sluice box come classifiers and some gold pans check with garretts md company they sale a good set up for gold panning and get a good shovel pick prybar and sledge hammer and a medium size rock chisel set

 

[djui5]

but I did drive this over the weekend......

Very nice!