vegetation

[calimac]

Where I am right now, if you want landscaping vegetation, you have the following choices:

1. Cactus
2. Cactus
3. Chapparral scrub
4. More cactus

The most popular choice appears to be 4.

Where we have ivy on our freeway verges at home, here they have cactus. Where our yards have shrubbery, theirs have cactus. Where we have windbreaks made of trees, theirs are made of cactus.

On one side of the freeway are expensive housing developments. On the other side is an Indian reservation. Empty fields or scrub, dotted with the occasional ranch-style house, and the even more occasional GINORMOUS CASINO.

As the riddles always end,

Where am I?

Comments

[wild-patience.livejournal.com]

Dune? (My first thought was hell, but that was too easy.)

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

"If I owned both Texas and Hell, I'd live in Hell and rent out Texas."

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Don't knock it. Not now anyway. It's quite temperate in January, and, as I mentioned on the phone, they have jackrabbits and ducks in the morning, and quail in the afternoon.

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

My guess would be Arizona, in the Phoenix metro area somewhere. But there are other possibilities.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

A map would show that Scottsdale has a freeway meeting this description.

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

It didn't occur to me to look at maps, because you said it was a riddle. I think of riddles as a test of wit, not of research capability.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Nevada?

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Close. Somewhere else I'd go only in winter.

[vgqn.livejournal.com]

There are certainly parts of Arizona which fulfill that description.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Ayup.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

But you already told us you were going to Arizona, so it's not hard to guess that.

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

Heaven.

[margdean56.livejournal.com]

Santa Fe is similar in re the Indian reservations and casinos, but here the default is juniper/pinyon scrub (with scattered cactus, granted). Gravel also works well.