Sunday, March 3, 2013

MAR 3RD - VAN HORN, TEXAS TO TUCSON ARIZ.

MAR 3RD  2013 - VAN HORN TO TUCSON
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.

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. 
EL PASO, TEXAS FROM THE ROAD
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!!!!

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

GHOST TOWN ALONG THE SIDE OF THE ROAD

JUST ARRIVED IN ARIZONA




VERY CLOSE TO TUCSON NOW!!!!






 

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