Back on the road again. We left Mesa at 9:06am and took southern Ave east to avoid some of the traffic on US60. We picked up Us60 near Apache Junction and headed towards Globe, AZ. It is mostly 4 lane divided highway until you get into the mountains and then it is 2 lane with a few passing areas. some of the grades are 6% and that is a little tough when you are pulling a 6000+ pound van. We made it without any problems, other than having to pull in second gear a lot of the long grades at about 35 mph. there were enough passing lanes that the traffic did not back up too much.
We picked up US70 outside of Globe and took it south east toward Lordsburg, NM. This takes you down through a large Indian Reservation which is typical for Indian reservations. We saw some cattle and some irrigation going on, but really not a lot. We did see snow on the top of a couple of mountains.
The first photo is of Ocotillo Bay, a really fancy condo,, gated community, where a acquaintance of mine lives. The condos start at $200k and up. They appear to be small and very close together. Most are on a water way that are all connected. The green is a 27 hole golf course with 20 of the holes over water. He says it is the toughest course in Arizona. It is very well kept and beautiful.
The second photo is of snow on the mountains. This is the only place we saw snow on the way down to Lordsburg.
The third photo is of our friend Harry Butts and myself. Harry is in a nursing home after suffering a stroke.
He is doing pretty good but he is 85 or 86 and has diabetes and taking all into consideration he is doing pretty well. We will spend the night here at the nursing home and will head east in the morning.