Another Wednesday Adventure

Wednesday was another geocaching adventure. I have a geocaching goal while in AZ this winter ~ to cache in the other three AZ counties.

It would be possible to do all three counties in one two-day trip, but we chose to cache in Graham and Greenlee doing a day trip. We stopped in Globe to add Jon, Sherry and Dixie for the 100+ mile trip from their place. We have cached with lifeisguud before in SD, WA, and AZ. It was great to see them again after more than a year.

As much fun as a loop trip would have been because of the different landscapes, no one was excited about 500+ miles. 350+ was a long enough day, even for little Dixie, the dog.

traveled through farm country

Welcome to Thatcher

a stop at a Thatcher grocery store for a specialty soda

takes like cherry cola

geocached at the Safford City library

fun cache inside the library requiring some reference skills

on the part of the geocachers

cemetery in Safford

Veterans Memorial

excellent lunch at a Mexican restaurant

Welcome to Safford

remains of a cotton field

convicts helped build the road in 1916

this one was shot

a second convict grave

died 1916 because of sickness

no longer in farming country

heading to mining country

three of them looking for the graves

not like OUR Black Hills

Black Hills because of long ago volcanic activity

destination? Clifton & Morenci 

it was supposed to be a day of sunshine

It was after we left the Convicts Cemetery along the Black Hills Byway road and got back on Hwy 191 when a friendly AZ HP met our truck. He made a quick U-turn and followed us while Hubby reduced his speed. This friendly warning was the result of "speed greater than reasonable and prudent." Hubby thinks the near miss was because of the retired veteran plates on the truck. I think it was because of our pleasing personalities and cooperative smiles. Whatever the reason...we got a break!

cattle country

took photos of the deer while visiting with the HP

highway view

where's our sunshine????

dead animal next to the cache Sherry & I found

a rodent

Jon said it was a ring-tailed cat

Clifton geocache

jail in the stone

some very colorful stone work

leg-iron in the smaller rock wall, dirt-floor cell

larger cell

4 jailbirds

old main street of Clifton

she is NOT the social club

gun shop

quite the ornate building it its day

train depot now visitors center

We drove onto Morenci, home of the largest producing copper mine in the US. I will post those photos & comments in a separate post. Twenty caches and two more AZ counties. It was a successful day!

outdoor drive-in movie screen

view before we got back to Safford and the last 

100 miles home