We’re back blogging from Show Low, Arizona. Show Low got its name from a poker game played over 130 years ago. The main street is Deuce of Clubs Avenue, named for the winning card. We left L.A. yesterday after spending a three day weekend with Lynda’s relatives. There was much drinking, and eating and drinking. The women went for manicures Sunday while the men watched football. Tim had a hard time getting use to football coming on early in the morning. Before leaving Los Angeles, we visited Descanso Gardens in one of the suburbs. It would have been a beautiful garden during peak blooming time. Unfortunately, there were only a few camellias, lilies and azaleas in bloom. We were also expecting our friends, Clive and Angie Morris from East Dean, Great Britain, to call us about getting together on the 2nd for breakfast as they were flying in on the 1st. We hung out at a park for a while waiting for a call. Not receiving one we headed east. We did manage to catch rush hour leaving L.A. We could not believe how far out of the city we went before traffic thinned out. We spent the night in Indio, California.
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Traveling this morning from Indio into Arizona towards Phoenix, we saw nothing but desert. Our original itinerary had us taking I-10 to Phoenix, heading south toward Tucson, and turning east toward El Paso and then on toward Dallas on the I-20. We had had enough desert so we stopped at a AAA office in Phoenix and changed our route. We traveled northeast out of Phoenix through the Tonto National Forest. We did not see any trees. Evidently they were furloughed as part of the Federal Government shut down. Actually, the first part of the Tonto National Forest was desert land with impressive stands of Saguaro cactus. As we went up in altitude we finally got into beautiful pine forests. Show Low was the first town since leaving Phoenix that had any hotels and a nice selection of restaurants. It was a long ways to the next possible stop so here we are. Our next blog post will be in a couple of days from Dallas.
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