Blog: Cold Splinters

Arizona State Route 85 runs 130 miles from Buckeye to the Mexico border near Lukeville. There's not much there for those 130 miles - a large (very large) military base and a few small towns dedicated to the sales of Mexican Auto Insurance - and that's the whole damn point. I spent two hours on that road, speedometer hugging 75 and the radio tuned to anything that would reach my antenna. As I finally rolled in to my campsite at the 330,000 acre Organ Pipes National Monument , the headlights of my rented sky blue [...]