My last day here in AZ and we decided to do another scenic drive, this time it was the loop up to the Roosevelt Dam, south to Globe, and back to AJ, most of it through the Tonto National Forest. We invited Joyce to go along and we stopped at a few little pull offs and admired the water and the surrounding desert. We all oohed and ahhhed at the beauty of the place - it is so desolate but yet so beautiful. The Roosevelt Lake goes on for miles, fed north by the Tonto Creek and south of the dam by the Salt River. Joyce looked up the word Tonto and we learned that it meant "stupid, silly or dumb" and then we realized that it was named after the Native Americans that once occupied the area - damned Americans and their belief that they are superior to all others.
This has been a lovely vacation but I believe that I would try to time it before or after the allergy season - the only part that wasn't good about it.
