22-MAR-2011
Pure "Eye Candy" they are.
It will be nice to see how this one progresses.
Seeing all those did make me think I should at least take a hose to the little Draggin'.
23-MAR-2011
Climbing the Pass
Six weeks after arriving in the city we are again on dirt.
This side of the pass switchback's up a couple thousand feet before topping out. We're definitely getting loads of practice doing hairpin turns.
23-MAR-2011
A Dirt Highway
This wasn't our usual style of Dirt Track, but it was nice to move alone at more than our "usual" speed of 10 - 15 mph. Thoe not all of this dirt road was this nice, or wide. A few miles up from here we pass the grader crew.
23-MAR-2011
Into the next valley
Once we wind far enough through the mountains to be able to see into the distance, this view of our road heading into the next valley shows itself.
23-MAR-2011
River camp
Tonight we camp in the mesquite above the rivers flood plane. We'd been following the river south after reaching the valley, and looking for a good spot to park-up for the night. This track leading into an abandoned homestead was just what we we're looking for.
We do hike the cattle trails under the newly leaved cottonwoods and down to the river bed. It's dry this time of year, in this place. That's what rivers in the `Zona are like. Sometimes they have no water, sometimes too much (for a day or two), sometimes the water's above ground, and sometimes it's under the sand of the bed.
Seeing a river full past the banks . . . shaking the bridge that it flows under . . . that's something that you can't put on your calendar, a planned vacation like the turning of the leaves in the NE. It's all about being around here long enough (sometimes years) and having several storms follow each other though in close procession . . . then the rivers race!
24-MAR-2011
Cottonwoods
Our view, from camp, down on the riverbed.