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.