Hybrid truck recharges from overhead wires in Germany - GIF

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Arizona is a great place for a visit, even an extended one. But after 26+ years of living here, I'm pretty much done with all its drawbacks, the incessant heat being the main one. About the only thing the state doesn't have is an ocean beach, but those are close by, too. You can ski sometimes up until June, and the mountains up north and down south are beautiful all year round (but in very different ways). The low and high deserts are amazing with beautiful landscapes everywhere and all sorts of wildlife. We have lakes, too, and everything from one of the largest cities in the country to actual ghost towns. I've spent much of my time exploring all the corners of this place, but I miss cooler, wetter climes. Here are shots of one of our magnificent dust storms (haboobs) overtaking Phoenix one afternoon and another I shot in infrared of Four Peaks with snow on top, just a few miles north of my home in Mesa (a Phoenix suburb).