Arizona – 20 June
From the air, it is clear that this place is still very much the wild west in some senses. The small farming belts are dwarfed by the immensity of the open desert in between. Aside from the occasional vertebral protrusion of a hard rock mountain range, it is flat, and the roads stretch for miles and miles without a curve.
After 20 hours of sitting on planes and standing in queues we are about to begin our descent into Tucson, and the great American Southwest.