We took a different route back, this time going through the Southwest: Arizona and New Mexico. It was about 100 miles longer, but the driving was easier and scenery more interesting. It would have been even more spectacular if we had a bit more time and could have taken a small side trip or two! There were numerous places just off the highway that looked incrediblly interesting for one reason or another, and often boasting great natural beauty (but what nature is not beautiful I ask!). One detour was right en route and we stopped to check it out, which was a very nice looking (and rather non-New Age) hot springs complex just north of Sante Fe.The highway did pass through several Native American (or Indian) reseverations, and I was surprised how different some of these places looked from other sections of the highway. The most striking were the advertisement signs-- they were often many decades old, with outdated messages, and sometimes in actual tatters. Every once and a while an impeccably neat casino would materialize-- casinos are illegal in most of America but most Native America tribes have argued that their tribal lands are subject to different rules-- a strange recent phenomenon.
Oh, and here I am standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona!
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