MAR 3RD 2013 - VAN HORN TO TUCSON
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| FLAT FLAT FLAT WITH NO CIVILIZATION IN SIGHT |
LONG drive today. It is now 1.45 pm and we started out
at 8.30am. However the local time has just changed so we are only 12:45 local
time. The drive has been much like yesterday, although much more arid and no
greenery in site, other than when we drove past cities like El Paso and Las
Cruces. We made a few phone calls to get in touch with family and friends along
the way. The scenery is indescribable. Breathtaking just doesn't seem adequate.
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| WONDERING... OVER, THROUGH OR AROUND???? |
As we continued the drive the landscape changed so
subtly. In west Texas it had become increasingly barren, the straggly oak trees
gave way to mesquite brush and nothing grew taller than five feet.
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| EL PASO, TEXAS FROM THE ROAD |
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| FINALLY OUT OF TEXAS!!! |
Then we
crossed into New Mexico and the landscape became like a Lunar surface. Dirt,
rocks, red mountains in the far distance, some 50 miles away and in-between
flat, flat high plains of dirt. Now the brush seldom more than 3 ft high, arid
landscape that looked like it hasn't seen water in a thousand years......yet
occasional dry creeks and substantial traces of former rivers. Eerie, bizarre
and amazing all at the same time. No longer did it look like cowboy country but
just uninhabited and uninhabitable desert and we wondered why did Mexico fight
so hard (and in the end lose) to keep
it. Land for sale at about $150 an acre but without water what would anyone do
with it!!!!
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| HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY |
And so into
Arizona, the valleys and mountains start to look like valleys and mountains,
not really lush fertile valleys but some evidence of a shade of green in the
undergrowth rather than just dirt. We saw sagebrush and our first tumbleweeds
...some 3 ft diameter and just rolling across the highway.....
Arrived at the RV resort in Tuscon after 435 miles (700km)
drive tired but happy to be here.
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| THE CONDO IN NEW MEXICO!! |
SOME SIGHTS FROM THE ROAD THROUGH NEW MEXICO AND INTO ARIZONA
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| BIGGEST PLANT WE SAW |
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| GHOST TOWN ALONG THE SIDE OF THE ROAD |
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| JUST ARRIVED IN ARIZONA |
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| VERY CLOSE TO TUCSON NOW!!!! |
