An incredible sky awaited us, how beautiful ,and a great welcome!

The road winds up the hill side, looking down, over the side , we realized how high we were going, the road becomes a wash board ,from cars going up and down too fast, we met 2 trucks, and both were driving at a break neck speed!!! good grief, you really dont want to go over the side here, nothing to stop you other then the odd ,giant cactus!!! The weather stayed cloudy, no rain though, because of the cloud, the colors were very subdued, mostly a beautiful, soft sage green, light orange, and the browns of the rocks. And, it was so quiet, just not a sound, not a bird song, nothing.

The base of the road is sand, beautifully colored sand, a light orange, along side are cacti, some small Beavertail cactus, some very large Saguaro cacti, growing all the way up the cliff sides. I love the desert Agave,also known as the desert Century plant, some were still blooming, on stalks, 8 feet high. here and there are Ocotillo, long stalks , also known as old mans walking sticks, all of those were totally dried up, but looking at them closely, we noticed tiny little green leaves coming out of the stems.

Roosevelt dam is the first one you come to after the bridge, then Horse Mesa dam, Mormon flat dam, and a dam at Salt River Indian reservation,i could’t fine a name for it.