Freeways And Lack Thereof

We drove to the Desert Museum yesterday. What a place that is...but more on that another time.

You must use the one and only Tucson Freeway (Interstate 10) to get to the Desert Museum from the Oro Valley area. Tucsonians do not believe in having freeways. Everywhere you go is almost always via surface streets. Lots of stoplights. You never feel like your getting anywhere very fast. The better description is "steady".

When we first arrived in Tucson we thought it was pretty stupid to have only one freeway (I-10 which runs North and South). Furthermore, there were no plans to even build another one! In fact there were no plans to even have this issue on the ballot.

After all, we were from the Cleveland area and like most major cities there were freeways everywhere. Everyone driving around 80mph,constant merging, slow left lane drivers, traffic jams, orange construction barrels (the Ohio state bird), weather delays...well you got the picture.

Yesterday we encountered deja vu all over again on Tucson's only freeway. All it needed was snow and I would have sworn I was back in Cleveland.

As of this morning we are now convinced that Tucsonians are very wise people. Slow and steady on the surface streets makes a lot of sense.

If you love Arizona and freeways, I suggest Phoenix.