Reply #6: When I was a small child, in first and second grade, [View All]

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I used to live in Prescott, AZ. A formerly beautiful place that used to have lots of hiking trails that I frequented. I was such a budding environmentalist that I counted tailpipes on cars, thinking the ones that had more than one tailpipe polluted more and therefore should be ticketed by the EPA. Aww, the innocence of a little kid.:)

Anyway, when I was in the second grade, my mother moved me down to the Phoenix area. I would then live in the concrete jungle until college, first in Mesa, then in various Chicago burbs, then in Chandler (AZ), then back to more Chicago burbs. I go to college in rural MO so I now have at least some of my former connection to nature. Though when I go back to Prescott, every time I find more and more old hiking trails built over. It has become little more than a Phoenix exurb, and it's more than 100 miles away.:(:grr: