Sunday morning, depart 9:30 am , 57 degrees and sunny, headed for the Vulture Mountains and open desert.
Throwing the windshield on was a last minute decision.
It’s the solitude that appeals to me. Out here you will see the occasional car, but not too often, I passed more cows than cars, it’s not the fastest way to get from point A to point B, this road just meanders.....perfectly. Mild temps and recent rains have greened up the desert, in a couple of months it’ll be the color of dry toast.
At the edge of the desert, I came across this place, a solar electric farm owned by the utilities company. We have many of these in Arizona, this is a tiny one. Some are absolutely gigantic. The satellite photo shows me as the blue dot.
Beyond the deserts edge I enter farm land, mile after mile of it. Here they are growing alfalfa and hay for the nearby dairy farms. Irrigation is the name of the game for growing anything in the desert. I also passed fields where workers were harvesting onions, you can smell that operation before you can see it.
And back in the barn. 130 miles clocked today. Today was a good day.....windshield was a good choice by the way.
“The best thinking has been done in solitude, the worst has been done in turmoil.” Thomas Edison
Later,
Bob