Culture Shock

I haven't been out of Indiana very much but one place that does stick out in my mind is when I went to Phoenix, AZ during winter break of my freshman year of high school.  This trip was a trip of many firsts.  It was the first time I had ridden an airplane and really the first time I had been away from home for an extended period of time.  When we arrived one early morning in December, I remember looking out the window on our ride back to the hotel and thinking that I was definitely not in Indiana any more.  There were a lot more homeless people and just the overall feel of Phoenix was different.