Traveling East, Day Two Nov 1 2012

"Ash Fork" AZ, population 3 buildings,
 had green juice at the general store

Oh today will probably turn out to be the best of the ride—amazing stunning landscapes thru Arizona and New Mexico, 

a drive for $20 thru “Bearizona” the drive through animal park with literally all the animals could come up to your window.  The bison and bear almost did.  

Sacred White Bison dirty brown from dust and fire smoke

this is no zoom, he's just standing next to the car

This is how loose the whole park is,
anything can come right up to your car! Here's a baby white bison

I broke the rules a little opening the window to take pics, but remember I’ve been fully trained to Level One volunteer at Wildlife Waystation on all these animals…. Ha haha ha.  You enter and they give you a wireless box to set on your dash and as you b-b-b-bb—b drive over the cow trap/electric shock set fence openings, you really are there right next to the animals.  SO great!!  Can you imagine the dogs and Tuco looking at a wolf or bear right next to the car?  

They were going IN sane.  There was a Raptor live bird show but we would have had to wait another 45 mins… just couldn’t wait.

Saw “sacred cows”  White Bison (brown from dirt), baby bears, bighorn sheep, timber and grey wolves, white Dall sheep, baby pigs and some crazy lookin roosters.  Also, there was a forest fire nearby and so in the park it was hazy and smoky and kind of unearthly.  Great.

Stopped at “ASH FORK” nowhere Arizona, as it seemed one of the oldest and least modernized rte 66 cool tiny stops, population three buildings….. 

In Ash Fork, AZ

and took the dogs out for relief and where did I walk them? Right into a patch of dried old cactus stickers and they started yelping and limping, I had to remove all the stickers from the pads (which then subsequently stuck into MY fingers aghhh those poor dogs!)

walked the dogs into piles of dried cacti stickers by accident

But the most important thing about 3 building Ash Fork, AZ, is that the “general store” had GREEN JUICE!!!  I bought three bottles and when a lady saw me set them up on the counter she exclaimed “WHAT!!!  They have that green juice!!!”  I was impressed.

By the time we neared Gallup, it was getting really windy and I got nervous driving  so we decided to stop—I tried calling all the hotels from trip advisor that were rated well, pets, inexpensive, tried to call each one and no calls would go through.

Drive into the one I thought looked best, they say the whole city is out of phone and internet due to some connection to an east coast system?  That seems so BS?  So I could send text messages from wireless but no sending, had to delay my update til tonite.

By the way, I am starting and ending every road trip day with DJango Django CD—it is the first music that has made me feel so back to normal loving music, its been dead in me for a while…. Betta said a couple weeks ago “I’ll take you to the Django Django show at Echo for free, you will love it. “ Certain that it was the music for me.So I checked some of their songs on internet I liked it but not blown away.  Then, she  me to the concert  Blehhhhhh  I did not hook into it.

made it to the next state each day

Then, she brought the full cd to listen to on the way to our first horse ride, told me certain tracks to play, I went WILD, and she gifted me the whole cd as going away present (along with awesome horse leg pendant--un-believably cool I'm wearing it every day.  I think you have to listen to Django in the car, enveloping  you, its spacey swoops and jangly claps and tamborines and spaghetti western mixed with gary numan, with quickly changing refrains in every song it never gets boring.  lyrics all about future plans, traveling and the horizon and clouds its the absolute perfect soundtack for this roadtrip, every day I play it.  Tuco LOVES it and starts whistling or "La la la" everytime I put it on.  It has a lot of harmonies and building up and down "LAAAAAA"s in it so very easy for him to digest.  Hail to the Bop.