Still in Benson, AZ

Our day trip yesterday. One of the many tree farms here. And have you ever seen this sign before? Its on the Dragoon, AZ road by the tree farm. And the Cochise Stronghold in Pierce, AZ. Its a fee area so be prepared.


I got up this morning and looking east, the dust is in the air. Its not that windy here at the park but it must be east of here. I had the weatherbug set for weather at Sierra Vista and it showed sustaind winds of 35 with a gust of 55. All this was yesterday. We have north winds of calm and a temp this morning of 43 from the Tuscon airport. Benson has no available weatherbug stations.

Our dish lasted the day yesterday and thru the night. Its staked down and has 3 water bottles hanging to for weight. Driving in the park yesterday we saw a Datastorm and three portables. One was fixed to a building.

We will be over at Charlyn and Mikes place this afternoon and evening for dinner. They are the Charlie60 link. I want to see their bus and the new floor Mike put down, its wood.

We are planning on leaving tomorrow morning. Our plans are to go back east to US191 and then go north to Safford, AZ. We will pick up US70 to Globe and then US60 to Sho Low. From there we will go AZ77thru Snowflake to Holbrook, AZ. This is about 292 miles thru the mountains of east AZ. Our planned stops are Safford, Globe and Sho Low. From Holbrook we will go east on I40 to Chambers and take US191 north to Monument Valley of Utah. Then its circle back on US163 and 160 to possibly AZ98 to Page or US89 to Page, AZ. With each stopover, I'll record the mileage here. We will be looking at BLM camping and some casino camping.