Most of the day seemed like we were traveling on just about all of Metro Phoenix's freeways on this day. My girlfriend and I started our journey from North Phoenix going down I-17 Southbound. We took I-17 to its end and moved along to I-10 Eastbound before transitioning to U.S. 60 Eastbound towards Tempe and Mesa. We moved down the Loop 101 Southbound to Elliot Road to get to where I used to live in Chandler. I took Kelly to my old house in Heatherbrook in Chandler. It looked just about the same as when I moved out of there in 1992.
After stopping to my old house, I took her through where I went to school (Hendrix Junior High School in Chandler and then Dobson High School in Mesa for my sophomore year).
After the school stops, we took a break and went to Golfland in Mesa. I wanted to ride the waterslides a la Napoleon from "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure". I was disappointed to learn that the water rides were closed for the rest of the year. I wanted to be Napoleon for my girlfriend. I settled for playing video games.
I thought $20 would be enough for each of us to play video games for a while. $20 stretches so far over at golfland. We were there for what seemed like an eternity, but it was really 4 hours. I set some high scores in Frogger and Donkey Kong and played some guitar hero games as well. Me and Kelly were rushing to get rid of our credits so that we could see some other sites.
After golfland, I took her to Red Mountain High School in Mesa and showed her the football field where I flew my cap into the air in 1994. After that I showed her my 2 houses I lived in when I was in Mesa. I showed her the one house on Sea Pines Circle and the Big house on Sandal Circle. The exterior of the house was much different when I moved out of there in 2000 and when I last saw it in 2004. It got painted from a cream color to a purplish color.
After the mesa tour, we took the Loop 202 Westbound from Power Road all the way down to Dobson Road and we got a look at the Riverview Plaza and we got a look at the Tempe Marketplace for a short while. It was too commercial and not really local enough for me and Kelly to stop there. We settled on going down University Drive to look briefly at the Arizona State University Campus and drove past Mill Avenue before settling on parking at a garage for lunch. I took Kelly to Uno's Chicago Grill and we had some of the best deep dish pizza we've had in a long time. It was so good we had some of it for breakfast the next morning.
I had a bad headache at one point I turned over the keys to the rental car to the beautiful kelly and she got us back to the hotel and we took a nap before our next journey: Sugar Daddy's in Scottsdale, Arizona.
I took a circuitous route from the hotel to Sugar Daddys. We took the Loop 101 Eastbound, then it curved Southbound before exiting at Thomas Road. Along the way I was listening to KTAR 620-AM and heard that Oregon was thumping ASU 44-13, so I quit Listening and listened to some hard rock on 98-KUPD. Thanks to Kelly, she saw the Sugar Daddy's sign and we pulled in for a birthday party for a friend of my friend Mike Spinelli. I danced with my girlfriend and jammed w/some gut in a gorilla mask that had the hair of one Rick James.
Me and the birthday boy, Felipe, talked about Florida Gators football (how good it was) and how bad my Sun Devils were.
After the party, Me and Kelly were traveling down Scottsdale Road (later turns into rural road) and initiated Kelly into an IN-N-OUT burger, and it was awesome. It was one of the best burgers that We've eaten. Later on throughout the trip, I regretably never got to take her out to Whataburger. That's another awesome burger too.
We conclude this day traveling Westbound on the Loop 202, then Westbound on I-10, and then Northbound on I-17 to our hotel and went to sleep. Next stop, Sedona and the Grand Canyon.
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