El Morrow National Monument & Salt River Canyon
At Grants, New Mexico we left I-40 and turned south on scenic SR 53. With the rented Hertz car we had their navigational system - NeverLost. I started plugging in some of the towns we wanted to go through and let the system give us directions. Most of the time it was great. We did find that the system would be even better if you could program that you wanted to get to your destination via certain roads. We wanted to wander along some of the scenic highways and NeverLost didn't want to cooperate sometimes. We worked around it by programming in some of the little towns that were on the highways we wanted to travel instead of our day's destination town.
El Morro National Monument was next. We saw where Indians and other historic travelers carved their names all along the 
huge rocks as they came through the area. The pool of water at the base of the rock was a nice place for earlier travelers to stop and rest. The rocks contain too many carvings to get pictures of all of them - over 2000. Several languages are represented and it was very interesting to learn about their heartaches and worries as they were 
traveling back then.
While at El Morro, we took time out to phone our friend Gwen and sing happy birthday to her. She was sweet 16 that day. We talked the park ranger into joining us with the singing.
We didn't have time to stop, but check out the Pueblo Indian Community in Arizona. The scenery is wonderful. After we crossed the Arizona state line near St. Johns on Arizona SR 61, the navigational system took us on a surprise little scenic drive on US Hwy 180/191 by the Lyman Lake State Park. We never did figure out why, but It was worth the extra hour or so. At Show Low we were back on US Hwy 60.
Salt River Canyon was next. The road is narrow and winding. Pictures don't do the scenery justice. I'm glad I wasn't driving - I couldn't take my eyes off the incredible views. 
Dinner was at the Country Kitchen in Globe, Arizona - a friendly little restaurant. Sylvia was 
our server and she was also the cook and worked the checkout counter. We stayed at the Motel 6 there in Globe. The rooms were very nice but their claim to have Internet connections was a joke. No one in the office had a clue about how to fix or even reboot the system.
El Morro National Monument was next. We saw where Indians and other historic travelers carved their names all along the huge rocks as they came through the area. The pool of water at the base of the rock was a nice place for earlier travelers to stop and rest. The rocks contain too many carvings to get pictures of all of them - over 2000. Several languages are represented and it was very interesting to learn about their heartaches and worries as they were traveling back then. While at El Morro, we took time out to phone our friend Gwen and sing happy birthday to her. She was sweet 16 that day. We talked the park ranger into joining us with the singing.
We didn't have time to stop, but check out the Pueblo Indian Community in Arizona. The scenery is wonderful. After we crossed the Arizona state line near St. Johns on Arizona SR 61, the navigational system took us on a surprise little scenic drive on US Hwy 180/191 by the Lyman Lake State Park. We never did figure out why, but It was worth the extra hour or so. At Show Low we were back on US Hwy 60.
Salt River Canyon was next. The road is narrow and winding. Pictures don't do the scenery justice. I'm glad I wasn't driving - I couldn't take my eyes off the incredible views. Dinner was at the Country Kitchen in Globe, Arizona - a friendly little restaurant. Sylvia was our server and she was also the cook and worked the checkout counter. We stayed at the Motel 6 there in Globe. The rooms were very nice but their claim to have Internet connections was a joke. No one in the office had a clue about how to fix or even reboot the system.
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