Scottsdale, Arizona is alive again. September’s scorching heat has been replaced with cooler October mornings, ideal-and-swimmable-eighty-degree afternoons, shorter days, and dazzling sunsets framed by palm trees gazing west.
Tourists are back too–in relative abundance, in posh pools, in surviving restaurants, in newly-minted hotels, on mountain bikes, on sidewalk scooters, on rolling streams of Segways.
It’s a far cry from the desolation of April 2020 when Old Town Scottsdale was first shuttered by a raging pandemic that persists eighteen months later, though many imagine it has vanished.
Mark Johnson Stories 
I can only imagine hoe beautiful and inviting Old Town Scottsdale must be at this time of the year 🙂
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Thanks, Aiva. It is lovely and breezy here right now!
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Yes!! Great to feel alive again. Great article.
On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 11:44 AM Mark Johnson Stories wrote:
> Mark Johnson posted: ” The arrival of October 2021 has signaled a > significant and welcome change … a downtick in temperatures and an uptick > in tourist activity in Old Town Scottsdale, Arizona, to bolster the hungry > tourism sector. Scottsdale, Arizona is alive again. S” >
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Thank you, Carol!
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