Friday, May 2nd

We did not walk yesterday. I was sick with a sinus infection and just felt like I couldn't walk 15 miles. But today I'm much better and we walked 14.5 miles today. We started at the other end of the Superior Tunnel. We are now in the Pinal Mountains and we are walking up a very pretty gorge. The sun was shining right into our faces and taking photos was impossible. On we walked until we came to an Arizona State Police officer. He had his radar gun out and was looking for speeders. He was a nice guy and even posed for a photo.
On we walked. We took orange flags with us today as we knew that there would be some tight places on this stretch of highway and we wanted to be very visible. We came upon a community called, "Top of the World". Not a whole lot here, an RV park, a few houses and some trailers. And I don't know why they call it' The Top of the World" as it isn't even on top of the hill we are climbing. But it did have one interesting thing, or make that two. There were two old railroad cars there. They looked very old and one was protected by a shed that was build over it and the other and most interesting one, was a few hundred yards away. There was a "for sale" sign on it and it said that it was built in 1860 and that General Grant had ridden in it. I guess that was before he was president. Anybody want to buy an old train? On we walked toward Miami, Arizona. We pasted by a huge open pit copper mine. And we also came to a bridge that we were happy to get to the other side. Not much room. We walked until we were almost to Miami. Tomorrow we will walk through Miami, Claypool and Globe, Arizona and head for Show Lo. Today I found a spoon and .53 and a half cents. Stay tuned .....