The deserts of Arizona are some of the most awe inspiring
settings that I have ever experienced. The dynamic between life and death in
this hostile environment is matched only by the beauty in which it holds. Through
searching for the right college for me, I visited Tempe, Arizona. The landscape
and the atmosphere were astounding. After landing in Phoenix Airport, my father
and I took the short drive from Phoenix to Tempe. The metropolitan hub is laid
out so that the main city of Phoenix is in the center, surrounded by Glendale
and Tempe. Traveling out of the suburbs of Phoenix lands you in the middle of
an empty desert for a mile; it was truly a threshold to cross over as nothing
can be seen for miles except hundreds of year old cacti and desert mountains.
It is the short trip through the empty desert is where I had a spiritual
moment. There is seemingly no beginning or end to the stretch of desert, vast
plains reach on past the horizon, with scattered mountain peaks. The line
between supernatural and natural seemed to almost be invisible as I thought
that this place was so beautiful yet so dangerous.
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