Today was to be fairly relaxing though it took us through the vast urban sprawl of the Phoenix metroplex. This is a huge geographic conglomeraton that includes, besides Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe, Scotsdale, Sun City and Apache Jct where we are headed today and includes a pop of 7M altogether. Fortunately the city traffic was not too threatening. At mi 28 we encountered a vibrant street arts fair in the heart of Tempe. It seemed much bigger than the one in State College though only for the weekend. It was teeming with 100K people expected to attend. We hung around the festivities for some while before heading the additional 22 mi to the Topaz Motel, a rather modest facility that will be home for 2 nights. It's just nice to sleep in a bed for a change.
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