Living without Daylight Savings Time in Arizona


I've lived in Arizona for most of my adult life, and unless you've been there since before 1968, you've never had to "fall back" or "spring ahead". I just Googled it, and except for the Navajo Nation, Arizona doesn't do the twice-yearly time switch. I live in the Phoenix, Arizona area and like the gorgeous weather at this time of the year (it's November 2nd as I write this), it's one of the benefits of living here. So I rarely give it a thought, unless I going to be calling one of my California friends.

I have a good friend who used to ride with me here in Arizona, and has since moved back to California. But we both still ride, and we talk every morning, usually about the weather. The sun rises here nowadays a little before seven, and I stop for my coffee about a half-hour later. A 7:30 call is still pretty early, but starting this Sunday I'll have to try to remember that my 7:30 is California's 6:30. And that's too early to be calling!

The pic at the top of this post is my view every morning from the QT on Thunderbird and 67th Avenue, in Peoria, looking west towards a hay field, the White Tank Mountains, and California. This is as close as I can come to sitting looking out at the ocean nowadays, if you follow me.

Of course, nowadays mostly I text and email, and that's not as time-sensitive as calling. Most of my friends know how to set "Do not Disturb" on their phones, but some don't, so if the phone rings at the wrong time they can be cranky. For those people I try not to call ever, which seems a shame as I'm sure that they'd like to hear the sound of my cheerful voice, many of whom have been listening to it for decades.

We have plenty of daylight here in Arizona, and as you can see, we make hay while the sun shines!
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