Traveling again

1/22/10 - Friday
Today is granddaughter Kylie’s birthday! Happy Birthday to you.

It was really hard for me to take a shower the next morning. And would you believe, it was even worse the next morning!!! And I didn’t think that could happen! Unless you need a really cheap place to stay – I wouldn’t advise staying here.

A stop for gas and we are heading on down the road again. The man at the gas station told us to be careful and hopefully we can get through Tucson before the storm hits there. There is supposed to be 3” of snow here in Deming before morning. He also said that he use to live in Mesa and they had a tornado warning there yesterday. He didn’t ever recall Mesa ever having a tornado warning before. This is really strange weather.

Along the way we drove in rain but there weren’t any of the terrible winds that we faced before. The weather station talked about this being a “historic SW storm”. We were not seeing anything that was too dramatic thank goodness. Bur for this area, it was.

Along the way we crossed the Continental Divide. Elevation 4,502 feet.

The mountains in this area are very tall and appear very sharp and jagged. When snow covers the mountain tops, it is a sight to see. But upon crossing Lime Peak (elevation 6644 feet) the mountains look more like a tall pile of boulders and rubble. There is a rest area here but we didn’t stop. Still, I was able to get some really good photos of the boulders as we passed.

I took more photos as we came to the town of Benson, AZ and then on to Tucson, AZ. We stopped in Tucson for gas. I took more photos here. The town of Tucson is like a town in the bottom of a bowl of mountains. Everywhere you look, it is surrounded by these tall jagged mountains.

We continued on. Our stop for the night is at a rest area about 85 miles before Yuma, Arizona!

Yippee, we are getting closer.