The cacti of Arizona

The cacti are plentiful in Arizona.  I’d never seen cacti before, so we pulled over onto a dirt path on the side of the road to check them out.  I kind of dig it.

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Only afterwards did I think about the fact that Nicholas didn’t have his AAA memebership reactivated and that if we’d busted a tire driving on those rocky dirt paths on some remote leg of the freeway out of cellphone reception that things would have been mightily inconvenient.

But that didn’t happen so all is good.

Eastward still!

The sunniest place one earth…

Is Yuma, Arizona.  And San Pedro de Atacama, Chile is the driest place on earth.  And I’ve now been to both.  Nailed it.

I learned about this city from Nicholas.  It was along our route so we decided to stop in and check out their old prison.  Why not?

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Nicholas promised to play Red Dead Redemption with me once we’re back home, since it features Yuma.

Onwards!