{"id":418,"date":"2012-03-06T17:06:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T01:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/?p=418"},"modified":"2012-03-06T17:06:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T01:06:41","slug":"phoenix-winterspring-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/2012\/03\/06\/phoenix-winterspring-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix, Winter\/Spring 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the airplane (new page for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/airplane\/index.htm\">Airplanes<\/a>, by the way) . . . some strange things. Here, for example, is the way the Royal Jordanian in-flight magazine described <em>Eat, Pray, Love<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/jordan\/royaljordanian\/rj262\/0912-28-10.jpg\" alt=\"Eat Pray Love Movie Description, Royal Jordanian In-Flight Magazine, Royal Jordanian Airlines Flight 262 From New York City-JFK To Amman, Jordan, December 28, 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here is the way the Delta in-flight magazine described it:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/airplane\/delta1447\/0302-05-11.jpg\" alt=\"In-Flight Magazine, Delta 1447, February 5, 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We also marveled at the come-hither look the lady on the Delta fasten seat belt announcement had. Hubba hubba:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/airplane\/delta2815\/0602-05-11.jpg\" alt=\"Delta 2815, February 5, 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In Phoenix, we went back to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/arizona\/phoenix\/margaretthancepark\/index.htm\">Hance Park<\/a> and saw the I-10 plaque installed there. Under Hance Park (aka Deck Park) is the final link in the transcontinental interstate, completed in 1992:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/arizona\/phoenix\/margaretthancepark\/3502-11-11.jpg\" alt=\"Margaret T. Hance Park\/Deck Park, Phoenix, Arizona, February 11, 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new page for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/arizona\/phoenix\/1333westcamelbackroad\/index.htm\">Palm Tree Stealth Monopole<\/a> at 15th Avenue and Camelback Road. I love these things:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/arizona\/phoenix\/1333westcamelbackroad\/0104-17-08.jpg\" alt=\"Palm Tree Stealth Monopole, 1333 West Camelback Road, Phoenix, Arizona, April 17, 2008\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In April, we had to fly through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/illinois\/chicago\/ord\/index.htm\">O&#8217;Hare<\/a> and saw one of these old school Airfones. I almost forgot about these things:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/airplane\/ua702\/0204-15-11.jpg\" alt=\"Verizon Airfone, United 702, April 15, 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We ate at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/arizona\/phoenix\/culvers\/index.htm\">Culver&#8217;s<\/a> (nearest location to NYC is about 473 miles west in Reynoldsburg, Ohio).<br \/>\nWe saw the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/arizona\/phoenix\/chasefield\/04-17-11\/index.htm\">D-Backs vs. Giants at Chase Field<\/a> early in the season when no one &#8212; no one! &#8212; knew that the D-Backs would be that good:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/arizona\/phoenix\/chasefield\/04-17-11\/3004-17-11.jpg\" alt=\"D-backs Legends, Arizona Diamondbacks vs. San Francisco Giants, Chase Field, Phoenix, Arizona, April 17, 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/arizona\/phoenix\/chasefield\/04-17-11\/5604-17-11.jpg\" alt=\"Arizona Diamondbacks vs. San Francisco Giants, Chase Field, Phoenix, Arizona, April 17, 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/arizona\/phoenix\/chasefield\/04-17-11\/7304-17-11.jpg\" alt=\"Arizona Diamondbacks vs. San Francisco Giants, Chase Field, Phoenix, Arizona, April 17, 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/arizona\/phoenix\/chasefield\/04-17-11\/7404-17-11.jpg\" alt=\"Diamondbacks Win, Arizona Diamondbacks vs. San Francisco Giants, Chase Field, Phoenix, Arizona, April 17, 2011\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the airplane (new page for Airplanes, by the way) . . . some strange things. Here, for example, is the way the Royal Jordanian in-flight magazine described Eat, Pray, Love: And here is the way the Delta in-flight magazine described it: We also marveled at the come-hither look the lady on the Delta fasten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out_of_town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}