March 26 Safford to Lordsburg 77miles

This ride started out so beautiful - lots of yellow poppies liberally sprinkled over all the foothills! And it was a gradual descent with a tail wind! We stopped in Duncan for a cup of coffee - they had cute street signs but that was about it.

We also rode from Arizona into New Mexico today.

Ummmm...that tail wind turned into a gale force tail wind and a dust storm - I sailed along at about 22 mph the 2nd half of the ride. When I turned to head into Lordsburg the wind almost knocked me down.  Dale picked me, Paul and Barbara up to drive the 3 miles to our motel. Turned out to be 65+mph wind.

Lordsburg is a PIT! We stayed at a motel because it was too windy to put up the tent trailer - apparantly wind is an issue there. Even the people running the motel are hoping to move. Needless to say we stayed the night and are happy to move on tomorrow.

What the picture can't convey is the velocity of the wind, but you can see the dust storm moving our way as we are riding.