Man, that desert is biiiiig...

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  Ajo, Arizona
Thursday, March 1, 2012

This morning  we took off on a trip on the Ajo Scenic Drive.  It's about ten miles long, if.... Of course, we wandered a bit and it took us about thirty or forty miles to complete it.  We diverted onto another road and were soon overtaken by two Border Patrol vehicles going much faster than we were.  Lots of dust out here too, but NO SNOW.  We kept getting farther from Ajo, so decided to re-trace our tracks.  The actual route is much smoother, but curvier and not so scenic.  I decided to try to find a cache enroute, but then it got complicated.  We decided to hike the last 3/5 of a mile.  That was fine, however I didn't read the explanation of where the cache was located.  It's  seven hundred feet above the desert floor in a half mile.  We never did get close, since there was another small mountain in the way.  We abandoned the idea and re-traced our route to the Soob.  I use RunKeeper on the phone to show we are and where we were, so that helped us from getting "dazed and confused".  Lots of the desert is similar in terrain and character, so we always find landmarks to helps us navigate.  

The weather here is unseasonably hot this year.  Sorry.  We are really enjoying getting out and exploring.  Nothing new for us.  We do that wherever we are and always have.  Cities, towns or the wild lands are an incentive to look around and see what the Creator has in store for us.  What's next?  Who knows what it will be.  We stopped at the local DQ, where I had a disappointing Blizzard.  Not enough chocolate, but no snow.  That's a good thing.  See ya later...

We took a ride through town and visited a few of the many second hand and thrift stores.  St. Vincent de Paul, Sue's Gift Shoppe, The Book Emporium and Bella Mexico among others were checked out. Lynn did find two paperbacks and I nearly found another hat, except it belonged to the nice Mexican fellow who was manning the till at St. Vincent's... It was too small anyway.  I asked if they had any mens shorts, to which he replied, "They don't have them out yet.  It's still winter."  That caused a laugh.

It's about seventy degrees as I write this, with a nice westerly wind to keep it comfortable.  I got the Weber set up to cook our dinner...hamburger steaks.  In addition, we'll have a tossed green salad, pasta with creamy cheese sauce and bread.  

I'm gonna miss that Lynn when she leaves in about forty days!

Just got a few pictures today.  See anything that you like?
 

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Pinacle Peak among Creosote Blossoms

Scene along the Route

Study in Shadow

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