Friday, October 1 - Today was our last day on the road! We got up pretty early and had breakfast, Joe washed the windows for a final time. A deer wandered through the edge of the campground, and a coyote was out in the meadow, so that was a nice beginning for our last day. I didn't think I would have much for our last day to blog about, but we ended up taking 37 pictures, and it was an interesting day, as all of the others have been. We left Hannigan Meadow at 8:00 a.m. (we have changed time zones again, back on Arizona time), and started down off the mountain.
The road down from Hannigan Meadow is probably the steepest, crookedest road we have traveled this whole trip. It took us 2 1/2 hours to go the 60 miles to Morenci, usually at about 10-15 mph. The views were awesome, but it was almost a white-knuckle ride for me in some places, especially after I saw the sign that said "Vehicles over 40 foot long must turn around." Joe, of course, just plowed ahead.
As we wound our way down through these switchback corners and hairpin curves, we came upon a few cattle right beside the road. A little more excitement than we needed.
We finally got down the mountains and the highway took us past the orenci Copper Mine, the world's largest copper producing mine. It was huge, and deep!
As we came on across Hwy 70 and then 60, I was reminded that Arizona is as beautiful as any state in this country.
We have made this drive several times, but I'm always surprised at how pretty it is. As we came through Globe, the high school was preparing for homecoming, and we saw some floats in town, then we met some more as we drove on toward Superior. We didn't stay for the parade, but they were beginning to block off the side streets.
We stopped for fuel just a mile or so from home, then we drove down our dirt road (probably the roughest road of the entire trip), and pulled into our driveway. Home sweet home. It was 104 degrees, which felt awful, but we went in, turned on the air conditioner, and waited for the house to get cool.
I intend to write one more blog, as a final wrap-up to our trip, with total mileage, wildlife count, and whatever else I come up with.
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