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Yes! The most important lesson I've learned is visibility. My shirt is that color, too! In my travels when I talk to people who consider everyone driving a car to be "an idiot", they're usually dressed in blacks and greys and just blend in with the background. Out where cars are turning is no place to be invisible!

That's funny! And be sure to look out for a Kojak with a Kodak! 10-4, catch ya on the flip side!

10-4 good buddy, breaker-breaker!

Yep! Luckily for me my roof was repaired after the hailstorm, and my house sits on the grazing land that used to be part of the Sahuaro Ranch. My plan is to do a leisurely trike ride around there, but I gotta wait for the weather to cool down a bit - it's hot out there! Stay tuned, my friend!

@@JesusManuelTorresTiscareno I really have no idea, anyone out there know?

@@zanjero yes! Stay out of the bike lane is my advice, and off of the airport tarmac. Danger zones!

I'll drink to that!

Yes, I’m inclined to agree with you looking at it more carefully. I was a half Windsor man in my corporate days back in the 90s!

Way, cool! Thank you!

What a perfect description - "Scottsdale's painted on patina"! And it works so well, giving Scottsdale that bit of snobbery as if it were Beverly Hills or something. Us Glendalians would like to see some of that tourist money here, especially during the Super Bowl, when out-of-towners tend to stay in Scottsdale, and just drive into Glendale for the game. Glendale needs some of that hype, and some of that money!

@@BradHall Geez, Brad, I should have hyphenated "painted on" and deleted "from" in the last sentence! Apologies for the poor writing. Sigh. Scenic Glendale. The little city that couldn't. I spent a lot of years living in poorer areas of Glendale and never could scrounge up any civic pride for the place - even though it has a stadium that looks like a Flash Gordon spaceship. I suppose that no civic pride is better than a snooty civic pride in an area that is soooo artificial. Glendale is huge, and I'm sure the "good parts" are very nice.

Yes! And we have Chicken Day!

@@BradHall I'm impressed! I can only imagine the food, festivities and games. Cerreta's chocolate-covered drumsticks. Chicken ice cream. Chicken tosses. Diving for chickens. Headless chicken races.

Yes, Phoenix seems to get a facelift every few years making it unrecognizable, and I think that’s why most people don’t realize the city goes back to the 1800s

Thanks for coming along with me on my cyber-adventures, Tim! And my best guess is that I would have gotten the jacket at Yellow Front - I never considered myself poor, but I shopped at places that the rich people would have never dreamed of going to!

@@BradHall LOL! Been there, done that - as they say. I don't think I ever shopped at Yellow Front (I'm not sure we had them here, did we?). I think it was mostly K-mart and Payless Shoes for me. Sears would have certainly been too hoity-toity, but I might have bought a thing or two at Montgomery Ward's if I had to. I was not yet the fashion plate I became about ten years later (in the 1980s), when I elevated my game and shopped the "sale" racks at places like Miller's Outpost and The GAP.

Thank you! She's a piebald wirehaired dachshund. And she is my ♥

Yes, I did ask, and I do appreciate your point of view. I used to hear a lot of that when I lived in LA, seems to me that Don Henley said it the best - "Maybe we'll leave come springtime, Meanwhile, have another beer, What would we do without all these jerks anyway? Besides, all our friends are here, Down at the Sunset Grill..."

@@BradHall Oh, was THAT what he was singing? I vaguely remember that song, but I don't think I had paid any attention to the lyrics (shame on me). Yeh, Brad, the place is what it is. If there is such a thing as reincarnation, I'll meet up with my loved ones "up there" and put my two-cents in for a new location for us all to meet in. It will be like deciding where to go for lunch or where to grab a beer. Besides, Phoenix will have dried up by the time we would be choosing - and I don't think anyone would vote for Baghdad, Phoenix's nearest competitor. I'll be voting for a greener, colder place where tall violent waves crash against a rocky seashore.

@@timward3116 Hi Tim - Yeah, I was living in LA when that song was popular, "gazing out at the auburn sky" - it hit me hard, and I knew that I had to escape from there, and find a city that I could love, which I did, and for me it's Phoenix. I've seen tall violent waves crash against a rocky shore, and cost of living there just made me miserable, and I grew up in a green and cold place (Minneapolis), which I never liked. If I could be reincarnated, it would be to here, and now, with my little house in Glendale, and my little dogs. Thanks for being here with me!

@@BradHall People lives are fascinating journeys, aren't they. I am glad you found a place you love, Brad - and you clearly LOVE it. Your entire channel illustrates that. My mother was the same way. When we moved out here from Chicagoland, she NEVER looked back. She loved her "little Arizoni." Me? Not so much. And she died 24 years ago and her "little Arizoni" ain't so little anymore. Except for a total of five years, I've lived here since 1974, when we moved out here before my senior year of high school. Too long a story regarding why I was gone five years sporadically, but since then I have lived in Montreal; Cork City, Ireland; Dublin, Ireland; and back in the Chicago area. I like each one of those places much more than here - but in each case, I found that I missed my human connections here and, though I don't like Phoenix, it truly did become home. When back in Chicagoland from 2007-2009, I nonetheless found myself listening to Beth and Bill on KEZ or going to the ABC 15 website and watching our news. I would particularly seek out stories that were set outside - outdoor shootings, car accidents, traffic backed up on the I-10, Circle K robberies, etc. Phoenix had grown on my soul and become a part of me - like a rash that wouldn't go away. I should write Phoenix lyrics to the tune of "My Kinda Town, Chicago Is." For the first time in my Phoenix-Glendale years, though, I live in a neighborhood that actually reminds me somewhat of my childhood in Illinois (north Central, between the 7's). I love this area, and I thank God every day for it!

Yeah, it doesn't show in the pic, but my best guess would be about 15-20 cents a gallon

Good feedback! I'll do another video this morning with the camera more angled up

Hi Steve - I plan on doing a ride this week and will reposition the camera. My question to you is: should it be angled up, or should I try to do the view looking sideways? Appreciate your thoughts on this - Brad

I did another vid this morning for you, camera repositioned, and better lighting. Enjoy! ruclips.net/video/VNve2G7kf0c/видео.html

Yep! I didn't grow up here in Phoenix, but I have a lot of friends who did, and this is exactly what they say. Imagine that, all of this going back to 1889!

@@timward3116 I wouldn’t be surprised, they would lend money to just about anyone, they even lent money to me to buy my house!

@@BradHall Yeh, but I'm sure you look honest!

It's still there, at 24th Street and Van Buren, which is where it's been since 1889. The official name has changed, along with the buildings, and it's now called the State Hospital, and it continues to help people.

Yeah we had Mo Udall and Barry Goldwater who were best friends not mortal enemies. They did deals back then that brought back from D.C much opening of doors and other good things.