When leaving Mesa, Arizona to drive to Silver City, New Mexico, we were totally unprepared for the beauty of the scenery on U.S. Highways 60, 70, and 191. The canyons, valleys, mountains, desert plants, and beautiful trees were almost beyond description. My digital camera got a real workout along the way. We had two favorite areas on the trip. The first was the area around Globe, Arizona, and we decided to make a return trip to that area in April 2005.
Our second favorite area was all of US Highway 191 up to Mule Creek, New Mexico. On that stretch of the highway, drivers are going "down the mountain" and into New Mexico and you really notice differences in terrain and vegetation. We had been to New Mexico and Arizona many times, but had clung to the Interstates on our journeys and had "made better time." We certainly missed a lot of spectacular scenery on those journeys.