Cactus and blow outs...longest day ever!

So, we leave Apache Junction heading for Laughlin on Monday morning.  Along the way we couldn't help stopping for a photo op with the giant Saguaro cactus.

 

 

had to be forty feet high

needles in the sunshine

baby one wants to grow up to be just like papa

don't mess with these bad boys

very scary cactus

close up little fur ball

 

Well, we actually missed our connecting highway (93) because I was too busy chatting with my daughter, Diana, so we had to catch the next small highway (71) to cut back to the 93.  Along the way we had an inside rear tire blow out.  We were in the middle of the desert but luckily had phone service.  AAA was there in about an hour, and we were on our way within two hours.  So we finally get to the 93 headed west, when the second, now left rear, tire blows!  We crawled along the highway 4 miles to get to the next town, Wikieup, to find it was the smallest town ever to have a problem in.  We found a guy open, but he was busy with another truck, and said it would be about an hour...at least four hours later, we had a used tire and 90 more miles to drive.  We held our breathe that the tire would hold, and we finally made it to Laughlin.  Longest day on the road for this whole trip! Now in Laughlin we have a Friday appointment for a new set of tires and we will be on our way Saturday to spend a week in L.A.

first blow out, was dark out by second blowout, so no photo op

In the middle of NOWHERE...

AAA guy got it done...