Eastern Arizona

Leaving Mesa around 11 am today we headed out Hwy 60 toward New Mexico.  The landscape changes rapidly east of Mesa with huge mountain ranges and beautiful canyons.  The desert is in full bloom right now and with all the rain there is way more color than I expected.  Red, White, Blue, Yellow, Orange, Pink, Purple,  and more YELLOW than you can believe.  It looks like a mustard field all over the hills. 

We drove through the most amazing canyon, Salt River Canyon and it made me think again of the Grand Canyon although it is not near as large the hwy goes right  through it so you see it from above, inside, and exiting to the other side!  There were so many switchbacks going down into the canyon and Paul was driving so slowly that even he got to see a lot of the canyon.  We stopped only once and that was because there was an opportunity – you don’t just pull over 50′ of RV and check out the view!

Across the Canyon is the rest of the HWY

 Salt River

 Like most awesome landscapes you just cannot photograph it.  These are taken about 1/3 of the way down the canyon and as you went around the next bend, very steep grade you could see the most amazing canyon walls.

We ended our day in Springerville, AZ which is about 50 miles from the border of New Mexico.   Paul decided that after going 200 miles on some really tough roads that that was enough and saw this sign as we were coming into the town of Springerville.  An interesting place.  I feel like I am camping in my dads pasture without the cows!  There are about 40 sites and most appear to be here as construction employees for the Power Plant that is being built.  It is very quiet and we almost got to see a lightening storm but it fizzled out.  But we do have cable TV and WIFI for only $22.50.  Not bad!

Springerville, AZ

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