Super Scenery

We never really grow up; we only learn how to act in public.

Tuesday we ventured a little farther than we had previously.  Our neighbor was our guide.  We got on our ATV’s and headed due north towards the Superstition Mountains.  There are no roads and only a few trails.  The land is state land and normally not travelled a lot. You don’t really have to stick to the trails.  You can make your own.   I tried that once but didn’t get too far because of a big gully.   There was no way that I was going to try that route with or without wheels. The ride around this area is definitely Arizona in all it’s finery.  The scenery is not what one is going to see just by driving down the highways. 

Instead of leaving the park via the back gate, we decided to travel along the riverbed.  Others in the park had suggested this route.  There was a huge difference between driving down the riverbed than exiting by the back gate.  The riverbed was full of rocks!  It wasn’t the smooth surface we had become used to at the back of the park.  Getting into the riverbed was a little challenging for me too.  At one point instead of turning to stay on the road, I had a quick decision to make and ended up plowing right through a good sized thorny bush.  Ugh!  I had to carefully pick it all off of me.

The ride was fantastic.  We saw a coyote running in the wild.  Actually, the coyote was running from all the noise we were making I’m sure.  We saw petroglyphs that supposedly told others where to locate water in the desert.  We saw beautiful birds, cactus and even a bridge leftover from the old highway 60 which hasn’t been used in years.  This definitely was the bridge to nowhere.

It was a great day and a great ride.  It was also nice to have someone we could follow on this trip.  Evidently there are remains of an old ranch out there somewhere.  There’s also old gravestones and an old mine.  We didn’t see those on this day.  However, we did see a couple panning in a riverbed for gold.  This was definitely part of the old wild West.

We were totally exhausted Tuesday evening.  It’s amazing how tired riding can make you and how sore your thumb can become by holding down the accelerator.  I was so tired in fact I kept watching the clock for a decent hour to go to bed.  It was too late to take a nap at 7:00 and definitely too late to call it a night.  Slowly the clock ticked away and slowly 9:00 came.  Then, I went to bed.  I know .. a little early but I was beat!    Who would have thought you could get so tired just riding quads?