American Southwest

Well i am not from that area and cannot answer any of those questions, but i am a canadian who has visited arizona (mostly nevada though). I went to a place called Sedona in Arizona. I was just capitvated by the beauty of this place! The red earth and pine trees are a gorgeous contrast. Also they have lots of those 'mystery places' where the magentic feild is a little off-wack and water flows uphill and what-not. Its a cute little town too.

We went to the grand canyon as well, but thats a given to go see ;)

I've heard the '4-corners' is nice and would like to go visit there sometime, i suppose on my next road trip down there :D

Also it would be neat to check out any anceint Pueblos or anything of Hopi or Anasazi culture (i am fuzzy on the areas of the different groups though, but i beleive Anasazi is in Arizona??).


;)
-Diana
 
I grew up in Texas on the border of Mexico and the United States does that count :D

1) 2 food you eat there but not up here in Canada--real Mexican food, not that fake Tex-Mex garbage, cactus jelly, honest to goodness burn the roof down chili

2) 2 words in Spanish--Mi casa es su casa, mi amigo

3) 2 animals native to Arizona--rattlesnakes, roadrunners, coyotes, horny toads (yes there is such a thing)

4) 2 plants native to Arizona--yucca plants, cactus

5) an attraction people can visit in the Amerian Southwest
--Grand Canyon (obvious one), painted desert, pueblo's, indian reservations


So do I ask is this a plan to go on vacation or a school project
 
Lived in Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming--does that get me in? ;)

1) 2 food you eat there but not up here in Canada: Agree with GEL--real Mexican food, but also add roasted prickly pear.

2) 2 words in Spanish...??? Not sure why this is particularly relevant--Arizona is still in the US, and English is spoken by most everyone. Texas, New Mexico and California have higher % of Spanish speakers than AZ.

3) 2 animals native to Arizona: Elk, bighorn sheep, gila lizards, pupfish

4) 2 plants native to Arizona: Juniper, willow

5) an attraction people can visit in the Amerian Southwest: Arizona has some awesome cave complexes, well worth a visit!
 
Lived in AZ for 7 years, still consider it home. My wife grew up in New Mexico.
1. Chili is more Texan. Not really considered local Mexican food in AZ. A great big chicken mole chimichanga in AZ, or posole in New Mexico. Oh, and tamales. Good tamales are hard to find outside the southwest, but it's getting a little better
2. Well, pescado (fish) would be a good one for this site. Always liked the word toronja (grapefruit) too. At least down in Tucson where I lived, there was a pretty strong Spanish and Mexican influence.
3. Pack rats, kangaroo rats
4. How could we forget saguaro cactus or teddy bear cholla (ouch!)
5. Gosh, that could go on forever. Organ Pipe Cactus National Park, Canyon de Chelly (Anasazi ruins), Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and so on.
 
My dad was stationed in Douglas, AZ with the railroad for a little over a year and we used ot go visit him all the time. There was a place close to there called the copper pit or some such, mining had gone on there and the earth was a multitude of colors in the pit, greens, blues, purples, oranges, reds--if you just looked at it for the colors it was beautiful if you started thinking about how it was made it was hideous. I'm going to have to go look that up I think it was in Bisby, hmmmmmmmmmm <goes to look>
 
I'm in New Mexico, and a lot closer to Texas than to Arizona, but here's my two cents.

1. Asado (cubed pork simmered in a red chile sauce), and chile rellenos made with New Mexico long greens (not anchos, not anaheims)

2. Corazon (heart), guajolote gwa-ho-lo-tay (turkey)

3. Road Runner, Vinegarone

4. Plants native to New Mexico - pinon (the fir tree famous for the nuts hidden in it's cones), mescal (a form of yucca that was the mainstay of the Mescalero Apache tribe).

5. Carlsbad Caverns, Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta
 
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