After the conference ended, I started back at sales. However, it was Sunday and not going well in Phoenix, so I decided to travel to Tuscan and be ready on monday morning. I thought I would go till I sold out and I will, eventually.  I imagined I would work my way to San Diego and head North through California. My true intention was to visit the Redwood Forest. It seemed like quite the roundabout way to get there and I was willing. While in Arizona, I wanted to go see the Saguaro cactus close up in their environment. As it turns out they have a whole preserve full of them, hundreds of acres of them at the Saguaro National Park. I rolled in just before sunrise and was hoping to take those cool pictures that use the morning light to enhance the photo. So, I needed the hills to be facing east. I drove around in the early dawn looking for a good spot. I’ll take a few pics, but not as nice as I had imagined. Once the sun rose the lighting changed and I looked for a place I could smoke and take pics of Lynard and the Country’s largest cacti, the Saguaro.

Here is a list of places that carry BFP’s in Tucson.

Stars Smoke Shop 64 N Harrison Rd. Tucson, AZ 85748

Tommy’s Tobacco Shop 6330 E Golf Links Rd. #186 Tucson, AZ 85730

Hippie Gypsy 351 N 4th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85705

Raw Smoke Shop 1521 W St Mary’s Rd. Tucson, AZ 85745

High Life Smoke Shop & Tattoo 4027 N Oracle Rd. Tucson, AZ 85705

Green Leaf Tobacco Shop 1310 W Roger Rd. Tucson, AZ 85705

Sticky’s Smoke Shop 6447 N Oracle Rd. Tucson, AZ 85704

Sticky’s Smoke Shop 4155 W Ina Rd. Tucson, AZ 85741

Frank’s Smoke Shop 3725 W Ina Rd. #120 Tucson, AZ 85741

Unfortunately or fortunately I sold half of them before leaving Tucson. Hence, I decided to return to the greater Phoenix area and attempt to sell the remaining BFP’s, since I didn’t do much marketing in that area. I will meet some cool people south of Phoenix at The Smokers Edge Smoke and Vape Shop 19756 N John Wayne Pkwy. #114 Maricopa, AZ 85138.   I continued on to Akimel Smoke Shop at 4231 W Riggs Rd. Sun Lakes, AZ 85248  I’ll bring Lynard in while I wait for the manager to arrive and decide if he wants to purchase any BFP’s. Meanwhile the employees choose which BFP they want. The store won’t purchase any in the end. But I sell several to the employees and smoke one with them. By then, it was closing time and the law showed up, so I thanked them and left.

Sammy’s Smoke Shop, I have never seen a smoke shop so well stocked. When I entered Sammy’s shop the first thing you notice is the massive amount of inventory on hand and beautifully displayed. Now when I see this I think, “he’s not buying anything, there is no space for my Big Fucking Pipes.” However, I will sell all but 18 of them to Sammy, at Laveen Smoke Shop 6115 S 51st Ave, Laveen Village, AZ 85339. We had coffee and chatted for a while. I really like Sammy. I will admit he was honest and open about doing business. He gave me advice and offered to connect me with Phoenix distributors. I told him “I’ll leave you to distribute them throughout the area.” I decided I could use a little R&R and headed north to a primitive hot spring on the way to the Grand Canyon.

Some Additional Photos of People I met.