Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport

Have you ever spent 10 hours on a layover at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport because I have and it really stunk.

And before you get all up on my ass about it, American messed up and by the time our first flight landed, our connecting flight had taken off. Smooth move Ferguson.

So for 10 hours basically we walked around a lot and had some pizza and a Caesar salad and I used the bathroom more times than I can count. Oh yeah, this was all being done while hungover. I think the only thing worse than spending 10 hours in Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport is doing it when you woke up at 5am off of 3 hours of sleep and you’re hungover. That makes it tougher.

Did you know that Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport is a civil-military public international airport? Maybe I just don’t read the airport Wikipedia pages too much, but I don’t think any of my usual airports are civil-military. It’s a hub for American which is ironic because they really sucked it up today.

Lotta stuff named after Barry Goldwater around here, Phoenix’s own. What a wild name (Barry Goldwater, not Phoenix. But also Phoenix). Apparently he was a big opponent of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Woof. Seems like he mellowed out a bit after his senate career. Pro gays in the military, pro environmental protections, pro abortion rights. You redeemed yourself a little bit there Barry.

Phoenix was 111 at the time of writing this. That’s pretty toasty. But they say it’s a dry heat. Does anyone really know much about that band named Phoenix? They have one song I know because it was on a PC MLB baseball game I had when I was a kid. I think the song is called Lisztomania. Wait did you know that Phoenix is French? And they’ve been around for 28 years? I thought they were newer. But also I don’t know anything about them so I don’t know what I was expecting. So this band is French but singing songs in English? Like ABBA being Swedish and singing in English? Here’s my question – Is there a market for me to be English-speaking but sing smash hits in a different language? Like if I recorded an album in Mandarin or did the Beantown Podcast in Tagalog, would I be an overnight celebrity overseas? Probably not, but you can’t tell me those kids from ABBA thought they were gonna become pop icons over on this side of the pond.

Did you know there’s an airline named ‘Southern Airways Express’ and they fly 2 routes out of Phoenix/s Sky Harbor International Airport, one of them being to an airport called ‘Show Low?’ What a name.

Ok I could write so much more because we still have another 90 minutes here, but I’m gassed. Still hungover and mostly just cloudy up here *gestures at head* so I will leave you with some trivia. Name the top 10 busiest routes out of Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport:

1. Denver
2. SeaTac
3. Chicago O’Hare
4. Vegas (no longer McCarran boo)
5. DFW
6. LAX
7. San Diego
8. Salt Lake
9. MSP
10. Atlanta aka the real Hotlanta (but Phoenix is probably warmer still)

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