OK, last day of our trip. Mostly excited to be home but a little sad it's over. Our last stretch is a fitting end travelling south down Rt 191, which is 80-90 miles of twisty, no guard rail, white knuckle (ok, a little exaggeration here) road. Rt 191 goes from the Mexican border to the Canadian border. This stretch rides along a high ridge so spectacular views. We could see evidence of last years fires. Lots of burned trees but also lots of new green grasses and plants, and really open woods under the remaining trees. We saw several deer and/or elk on this stretch so they must be enjoying the new greenery.
After the ridge road you get dropped into the Morenci Copper mine, actually driving right through the open pit mining operation. The trucks were on either side of us and while it is hard to tell how big they are from afar, they have a scenic pulloff with various truck parts showing how big they are.
I am adding a picture of our battle hardened Toyota. It has been flawless for the 7400 miles we put on it this trip. If you walked by it this morning you would think homeless people were living in it. It has given us 35-37 mpg most days on the trip.
We then stopped in Stafford for groceries and got gas in Benson ($4.17 instead of $4.69 in Stafford). Then home to Bisbee. All day we noted how green everything is since we have so far had a good monsoon season.
The house was still here, nothing flooded, no bugs eating anything, nothing missing. We emptied the car and did laundry then made a couple margaritas to celebrate being home. There is no place like home.
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