Wow! Wow! Wow!
The whole trip's been a wow so far. Today has just taken us through the most magnificent scenery though - it's been great. Far too wonderful for a simple teacher (retired at that) to describe.
The whole journey has been out of this world - wide expanses of wild, unspoilt country, mountains, crags, lakes and the Roosevelt Dam, as well as beauty on the small scale too, with colourful flowers beside us on the paths when we stopped to walk.
We enjoyed the "normal" saguaro (and other cacti) on the journey from Oro Valley to Phoenix, although there was much more farmland on the outskirts of Phoenix, as there is evidently far more irrigation for the crops.
Biggest was probably cotton, but we also saw grain, some vegetables and pistachio nut trees.
Our route took us to Apache Junction, where we stopped off at a nineteen century "town" located around a mine, alongside the Superstition Mountains.
Dave enjoyed the train and station!
Tortilla Flats was our stop.
Lunch was eaten in a great saloon which boasted amazing toilets!
The next section of our route, on the Apache Trail, was largely on an unmade road, and we "ooh-ed"
and ahh-ed" at the fabulous scenery on all sides as we climbed and descended around an amazing array of bends on the road.
Once we left the aridity and cacti behind, and started climbing to higher levels, with lower temperatures, shrubs appeared, then conifers, then a much more mixed vegetation.
On one stop we had just gasped at the majesty of the geology and the landforms surrounding us when we noticed a clump of beautiful white flowers "hiding" behind a wall.
After Canyon Lake and Apache Lake came the grandeur of the Roosevelt Dam.
Journey's end was at Cottonwood.
The whole trip's been a wow so far. Today has just taken us through the most magnificent scenery though - it's been great. Far too wonderful for a simple teacher (retired at that) to describe.
The whole journey has been out of this world - wide expanses of wild, unspoilt country, mountains, crags, lakes and the Roosevelt Dam, as well as beauty on the small scale too, with colourful flowers beside us on the paths when we stopped to walk.
We enjoyed the "normal" saguaro (and other cacti) on the journey from Oro Valley to Phoenix, although there was much more farmland on the outskirts of Phoenix, as there is evidently far more irrigation for the crops.
Biggest was probably cotton, but we also saw grain, some vegetables and pistachio nut trees.
Our route took us to Apache Junction, where we stopped off at a nineteen century "town" located around a mine, alongside the Superstition Mountains.
and ahh-ed" at the fabulous scenery on all sides as we climbed and descended around an amazing array of bends on the road.
On one stop we had just gasped at the majesty of the geology and the landforms surrounding us when we noticed a clump of beautiful white flowers "hiding" behind a wall.
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