Pool Day Afternoon in Scottsdale
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canyonwalkerPhoenix Getaway travelog #5
Scottsdale · Sat, 20 Sep 2025. 5pm
We've spent the past few hours enjoying the pool at the Scottsdale Plaza Resort. Well, Hawk spent a bit more time out at the pool than me. I started just taking it easy sitting on the private patio of our upgraded two-story casita.
Soon I joined Hawk at the pool. It wasn't very far away; just through that gate on our patio then a few steps diagonal to the right.
The pool's right in the middle of of the "villa" of casitas surrounding it. It's nice to have this pool-frontroom casita.
The nice thing about the temperature topping out at 102° F today (39° C) is that we could walk straight into the water. There was no moment of, "Brr, this water feels cold." Just walk right in and, "Ahh, that feels nice."
Walking out of the water was another matter. Walking out, it was like, "How TF can 99° [it cooled down a bit from the high of 102] feel so chilly?" The scientist in me knows it's because evaporation is an endothermic process, but still it was disorienting to experience such science in the first person. Layman's translation: it feels cold for a minute in the warm air because the water drying off your skin draws out heat from it. Bonus factoid: It's also why the hot-air hand dryer feels cold at first and only seems to get warm right about the time it stops. It's not actually cold at first, it only feels cold because it's working. Once the water's dried off your hands, the air feels hot and it's done.
Scottsdale · Sat, 20 Sep 2025. 5pm
We've spent the past few hours enjoying the pool at the Scottsdale Plaza Resort. Well, Hawk spent a bit more time out at the pool than me. I started just taking it easy sitting on the private patio of our upgraded two-story casita.
Soon I joined Hawk at the pool. It wasn't very far away; just through that gate on our patio then a few steps diagonal to the right.
The pool's right in the middle of of the "villa" of casitas surrounding it. It's nice to have this pool-front
The nice thing about the temperature topping out at 102° F today (39° C) is that we could walk straight into the water. There was no moment of, "Brr, this water feels cold." Just walk right in and, "Ahh, that feels nice."
Walking out of the water was another matter. Walking out, it was like, "How TF can 99° [it cooled down a bit from the high of 102] feel so chilly?" The scientist in me knows it's because evaporation is an endothermic process, but still it was disorienting to experience such science in the first person. Layman's translation: it feels cold for a minute in the warm air because the water drying off your skin draws out heat from it. Bonus factoid: It's also why the hot-air hand dryer feels cold at first and only seems to get warm right about the time it stops. It's not actually cold at first, it only feels cold because it's working. Once the water's dried off your hands, the air feels hot and it's done.
