Road Trip: ABQ to Phoenix Part 2

in travel •  6 years ago 

There isn't much out here but Navajo land, enormous mostly-empty ranch land, and mysterious mountain peaks dotting the horizon.

It was much the same across the border into Springerville, Arizona and beyond, into the little mountain-town of Show Low, sitting in the western finger of the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest.

Continuing on 60 down into the mining town of Globe, we passed through Apache lands and crossed the Salt River as it winds its way through the dramatic canyons and cliffs of the Tonto National Forest.

It is here that you first begin to see to see those stately sentinels of the Sonoran desert (before this point, we have been in the Chihuahuan desert) the Saguaro. At first it is only one or two standing alone on a hillside or promontory, but soon you see them raised up all around you, so huge and old and iconic.

If you come this way, be sure to stop at the rest area at the bottom of the canyon and check out the trails along the river to get some blood flowing in your legs again, or stop off beforehand on the north side of the river and check out some of the beautiful rock formations towering above.

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Looks great, small nitpick is that the colors of your camera are a little washed out.

True, my photography skills are not up to par, I will work on it!

Just get better equipment, and check out the work of some of the awesome photographers on Steem.

looks like you are visiting some natural and beautiful place of this world. Good one . Namaste!!

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seeing is a very spectacular sight, but it also seems very scary when nearby. well you went to celebrate a picnic @pinkspectre ?

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