Saturday, October 18: El Paso to Apache Junction

At El Paso Texas

Good morning boys and girls it is now 2:43 AM Saturday, October 18 we are boarding the Los

El Paso Greyhound Station

Angeles brown bus for me to go to Mesa Arizona and to be picked up by Carl and go to Apache Junction Arizona. It's 245 and therefore the running

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already 10 minutes late. I'm gonna take a nap. Well I was napping but for some reason the overnight entering Mexico we had to put a patrol

A Scary Road

could be the bus and look at everybody's ID I will have a screenshot of the map we're driving

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down west on interstate 10 now. I am really tired and hopefully I will get back to sleep. I have asked the

Border Patrol on the Bus

border patrol why we needed reinspect and he said New Mexico New Mexico but no matter I had my ID. Alright it's 6:04 AM we just

Rest Stop

left little puny town in New Mexico have to look up its name. And the only thing there was a McDonald's

so I had to hashbrowns and OJ that were quite good.

I woke up at 6:15 630 in the morning

Stunning Sunrise

a.m. to unbelievable site of mountains in big sky's it's beautiful man. It's sitting there staring at them

The Mountains

the whole morning.I seen stuff like this in pictures but until actually physically it in the space I've never

been to such a place. It is now 7:27 AM mountain time and we are getting close to Tucson Arizona.

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We only get a 30 minute break there. I now see why it was worth it to lose my sleep and not be that

My Location at 7 am

comfortable overnight. Because waking up to some like that of out of nowhere is breathtaking to put it

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mildly. And I see why people move out here it's just so fast. It's like early sobriety but in another level. The

Phoenix

mine has to catch up what  my eyes have seen. Well I'm at the little bit more and we just left Casa Grande.

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The significance of that is I am 45 minutes from ending this bus trip. The Danish taste good

Nice Passenger at Casa Grande

and the coffee is tasting mighty yummy. Who cares why didn't get much sleep or I need a shower.

At Casa Grande

I'm going to make this trip and I'm gonna enjoy it, Will Carl pick me up at the makeshift Greyhound

Carl's Backyard

station and took me to his place. It was very well appointed very small but done very nicely. I didn't took

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a glorious shower and had some homemade chili to get me back into the real life. Carl then took

Carl Treated Me to Chilli

me to superstition Mountain which is the huge mountain right on the outskirts of Apache  Junction.

Carl's Studio

He took me on this Arizona route 88 which is kind of like the one on California's 101 which

Carl Driving Me from Bus Stop

is right on the coast of the Pacific ocean. There were some cool scenic vistas that were quite unbelievable.

Superstition Mountian

I like a fool, forgot to bring my phone charger so I had a dead battery at the most inopportune time.

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Fortunately at the the touristy thrift shop called blank I was able to get a charger and a car charger attachment

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. With an iPhone you can never have enough chargers. I'm so glad I have this phone don't have

Mining Cars

enough room just keep taking pictures till I drop. I Took so many pictures we have a hard time deciding which

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ones to keep and which ones to toss out and which ones to put on Facebook. The only bad news

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the whole day is that I aggravated my foot issue by twisting it a little bit so now I have to walk with a

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little bit of a gimp and I'm not to do any hiking on Mount miss roads because my foot keeps turning.

 The Mountains

At least I'm not like completely gimped out for my trip. It's warm it was 94° but it was the most comfortable 

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94° I've ever experienced.. It's that old cliché it's not the heat it's the humidity!