ARIZONA REWIND: Apache Trail and Globe, AZ

I know I've done this several times but I just came across some pictures I took while in Arizona last December and even though they're old news I'm putting them up, mostly because I like them. Adale flew out for a long weekend and this was her first trip to the Southwest. That Saturday we took a long drive (7 hour rt) along what's called the "Apache Trail". It's a partially paved, partially dirt road through the desert & mountains. It probably has some historic significance but we didn't really pay attention. We did go by at least one old mining town (as well as a fake old mining town for tourists), but for the most part we were driving in the middle of nowhere. The end point for us was a little town called Globe, where we stopped for Mexican food. We chatted up this big teenage kid working the counter at his parents place. He had recently moved from Southern California because his parents thought where they lived was too dangerous for the kids because of gangs, but he also told us about a trailer park down the road where we would get shot just for being white. He very well may have been trying to talk big but who knows. He was impressed by the Mustang I was driving (I got lucky at the airport) and said that he wants to go to a local Voch-Tech to learn how to turn cars into street hot rods. Anyway, we took some pictures of old signs in Globe and headed back home.

















OK, the last one is pretty cheesy and looks like a car ad.