The weather’s just about right for a trip out the El Camino del Diablo and into the Organ Pipe and Cabeza Prieta region west of Ajo. The stretch of the Devils Highway between Ajo and Yuma Arizona is the most spectacular portion of the 250 mile historic route from the Sonoran borderlands to the Pacific….
Tag: Southwest Arizona
Arizona’s Southwestern Desert
If the Colorado Plateau is Rachmaninov, Arizona’s far southwestern desert is pure Black Sabbath. This country is so intense you swear you can smell the heat and the dramatic sepia tones of the landscape. Your ears ring in the silence of midday. At first glance, you are convinced that there is simply no life here…