Today's trip took us through the Sonoran Desert between Gila Bend and Casa Grande, Arizona. We had one SAG stop in the 72-mile sojourn over a relatively easy pass at about 1530 feet. Partway into the trip, I (Ed) was talking to Linda in Michigan on the cell phone. Traffic was almost non-existent. Suddenly she said, "I think you took a wrong turn. You're supposed to be on Maricopa Rd." Sure enough, we had made a wrong turn and had to backtrack about 4 miles because we had missed the tiny sign for Maricopa Rd. But how did she know, more than 2000 miles away? She had just come home from church, had gone to the website displaying our progress via the tracking device attached to my bike and saw that we were heading for Phoenix instead of Casa Grande. Doug with his pilot's sense and who was in an earlier riding group, sensed that somewhere they had taken a wrong turn as well. At about the same time that Linda called, Doug called on his cell phone to let me know that they had taken a wrong turn.
If you wish to follow our progress as we travel, please feel free to go to this link:
Left: Doug with Sagauro Cactus
Right: Ed with a different Sagauro Cactus
1 comment:
Hey Doug and Ed, That's a nasty part of the country to make a wrong turn in! Glad that you didn't end up in Phoenix...would have been a long ride back to that little Mariposa sign. Praying for you. Russ
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