Day 55 - Lake Pleasant, Arizona

(Ursula) It was time to move on and travel further south. The forest ended shortly after Flagstaff. The landscape changed to the desert, with cactuses everywhere. Some were tall and looked like a tree.

Shortly before Phoenix, we turned right and stayed at the Desert Tortoise
Campground on Lake Pleasant. It was mercilessly hot again - even my eyes were burning.

Again, we spent most of the day up to our necks in the slightly cooler lake water and slept outdoors on wet beach towels. Unfortunately, the camping tables here are made of poured concrete, and we had to wet our beach towels quite often during the night.Leia mais