I did not know that. I've been to the Napa Valley. Used to go to school in Vallejo back in the 80's. Before it became a dump.
I used to live all over down in southern Az. Bisbee, Elfrida, Sierra Vista, Tombstone. I remember going to El Dorado days in Tombstone. As a kid we used to jump the adobe fence between the municipal park and the OK corral gunfight mock up.
I've been away for 25+ years now. I hear that southern Az is all grown up and full of McMansions and strip malls. Correction .... forclosed McMansions and empty strip malls from what my brother tells me.
As I said I am in effect a high end janitor. I operate and repair a large number of mass spec's and chromatographs and the facilities that support them for a grouping of universities. They study the interaction between large air masses and the ocean. I only do data and sample collections. I kinda fell into the job because I have alot of shipboard electronics experience. That and I prefer to live way ... way .... WAY out in the boonies.
Thank you for your welcome
Well, I exaggerate in comparing it to Napa Valley. There's, I think, 13 producing wineries now, and a few more getting started. You go down to Sonoita now and everybody's hawking the wine tour maps, and there's a precious little bakery where you can buy organic bran muffins and vegan cheese danishes. The wine is pretty good, though, and its still a nice area for a day trip from Tucson.
Not so much with the strip malls, except Sierra Vista, that place is pure Cali suburbia. Lots of new cookie-cutter developments up here, though the new construction has stopped cold. Tucson is still growing very fast, so theres a housing glut, but doesn't seem as bad as it seems to be elsewhere. The main construction boom here is in red-light and speed cameras. There are new ones popping up every day, it seems.
