We left Silver City and figured we could drive for two hours before looking for a place to sleep. We were up pretty high and drove through the mountains. Eventually we ended up on a high plateau with beautiful ranches. A family of deer crossed the road in front of us. Ghis wanted to stop at a house and ask if we could ride horses. But we also wanted to get closer to Phoenix.
It was cold, too, and there was a bit of snow around and I hoped we’d make it somewhere warmer for the night. We entered a forest and crossed the state line from New Mexico to Arizona.
Then we turned a corner and found ourselves on an amazing lookout. It freaked me out to be suddenly so high up!
We drove down and down some more as the sun set over the mountains. We saw almost nobody on the road.
Then we saw lights and eventually met up with a larger highway and came to a larger town. We headed to the Wal Mart, but kept our eyes open for a good place to eat. We didn’t see anything that looked good. The only places that looked okay were Mexican restaurants, so we had Mexican food for the second time that day. Now we have had enough to last awhile!
The Wal Mart was nice and quiet and in the morning we set off for Phoenix. We drove through some more mountains and some flat parts and past many mines and then we saw our first super-cool cactus! Ghis saw them first. We almost didn’t believe him, but then we passed a mountainside covered with them – you know the cacti that are tall and look like they have arms? It made us laugh every time we saw some. Almost like we didn’t really believe they existed until now.