Nana & Papa Say Goodbye to the USA...Hello To Mexico.

Famous Route #66 now know as Route #95

was such a scenic and fun route...if not a little hair raising.

The warning signs would say "DIPS" for the next 15

miles....these dips were liken being at sea with waves rolling in.

Then to make it interesting, would be the blind hills and blind 

sharp turns.  I think we rode it all out so very well

because ever time we looked at the outside temp,

it was going...14....16...19....20...the 

land scape was growing greener, and in the end

of all this excessive JOY, we bursted into the 

perfect song.....(we have it on video for your 

listening pleasure....which is only 3 minutes long,

but taking hours and hours to upload...so it will be to follow)

and we sang it with great gusto as we dipped along!

OLD ROUTE 66

saw us off this morning

I could not help but take this photo of this giant

rooster...all I could think of was good old "Truckhead"

our first farm rooster of last year...and then I thought of

Silas...(who called him Chickenhead)...and

of how Truck-head bit him...and was then

made into STEW!  ...Hey Silas, do you

like this picture...Yes or No???

We went off trail for a small drive so Papa could

see the Colerado River.....This river is drying up

because such mass volumes are being drained

to water the dessert fields...That is history in the

making.....Here we are, marking the making of it all!

These are the canals that flood the 1000s of fields

 Making the alfalfa to feed the thousands of dairy cattle that we saw later....

 

 Have no idea what these birds were....but they would

flock to the flooded field ...and eat grub...Yummy

Photo to show the "Dips" of our long days drive.

We drove a mile or so, trying to figure out what

in the world this pile (mountain) of dirt was about?

The part tens on the side hill was man made and sooo

strange looking...finally just as we gave up, Papa's

eyes saw a sign that told us what it was.......

This was in the middle of no where...and look

at that protective fence...there were no building

so it was not a prison...???????

A GOLD MIND 

After we passed the Gold Mind, the landscape took a complete

change....this happened so much, sudden landscape change!

What unfolded before me looked like the kind of desserts that I 

have seen on TV where the man is dehydrated, and dying

looking for water.  You know the rolling hills of sand.

Here they were...what a amazing site.  

In photo two there are two people inn the distances on top

of one of those huge dunes...Gives you an idea of

the size of them. 

We drove by thousands of diary cattle, named into

a these space age looking corrals....  too many

cattle...it was soooo over crowded...Yuck!

Thus the river water to grow the food to feed the 

cows to feed the humans...or something like that?

Leaving the USA....The boarder crossing into Mexico

We were pulled over and asked to go buy a permit

to stay for 3 to 6 months...We did not understand

the need of this...but pay we did...and we will only

stay our planned 30 days....OH WELL???

As soon as we crossed the boarded and stopped at our first stop light

we had mexican company.  Who wants lemons while they are

driving in a car on vacation?  Papa looks so pleasantly amused!

I look to my left, and there walking into town were these two women, 

dressed so colourful and looking so beautiful.

Just thought this light was so dinky looking

Our GPS would not work in mexico, and we

really fell in love with using it....so now we are 

forced to go back to "old way"...following the

signs and reading maps!  Ug...ug...ug

Here we are...our discounted apartment was waiting

(JUST KIDDING)

I love the sign that says..."Last U Turn to the USA

if you go beyond that...you are Doomed for Mexico!  LOL