Heading into Arizona. It is the day you turn your clocks forward for daylight savings time today. Loose an hour. I hate it when that happens, I never get my sleep/wake rhythms back for months. Fortunately we were headed to Arizona, which does not do daylight savings time. We have been and out of so many time zones I really don’t know what time it is anywhere!
Roadside rest stop in New Mexico, the picnic tables have little adobe shelters. We crossed the continental divide outside Lordsburg, NM. It is a little lower here than it is in Colorado.
Chiricahau Mountains in Arizona, seen from New Mexico. The Chiricahua Desert Museum in Rodeo, NM. It was mostly a snake and reptile museum. Very well done.
In front of the museum is this rattlesnake tail sculpture and this gila monster mosaic.
Inside there was a rattle snake basket, an aboriginal painted turtle shell, a huge gila monster, a rattlesnake climbing the wall of its cage (gasp, I did not know rattlesnakes could rock climb), a snake pot, snake venom cola and two rattlesnakes coiled together like twins. There were about 15 different kinds of rattlesnakes, some turtles and lizards. Also endangered arboreal alligator lizards. Among many other things.
The Chiricahau art gallery in Rodeo. It was a small town of cute adobe buildings. Then we crossed into Arizona.
This monument is near the spot that the last Apache Chieftain Geronimo and his followers surrendered in 1886. That surrender forever ended Indian warfare in the US. The bus parked at the the Douglas city golf course for the night. Mexico is across the border from Douglas.
John biking on the back roads of Douglas. Sunset over the rodeo and fairgrounds behind the bus reflected in the bus.
Sunset over the rodeo stands behind us and the golf course in front of us.
Downtown Douglas, Az, the fence between Mexico and Arizona at Douglas, AZ. The fence is about 20 feet tall.
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