Hmmm, just thought to check Google Maps. I guess I was right, as it chooses that route to Paradise. It also appears the
ford is still the same.
I guess it's not a Biblical Paradise, as the road is at first straight and
broad, then narrow and very crooked.
No Charon nor boat at the river, either.
Somewhat paradisaical, though, as it is pretty and very quiet.
This Train Moose
On 9/6/2016 9:46 PM, Moose wrote:
On 9/6/2016 5:15 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
Now it's our turn for rainy weather here in the mild west. Hurricane Newton has crossed the Baja peninsula and
is now crossing the Gulf of California. Tucson has a 100% chance of rain (POP), and Phoenix has a 40%. I'm sitting
right on the edge of the forecast mass of moisture, and I could potentially get a whopping 0.25" of rain. NWS is not
even hinting at a total.
Newton will be moving NNE just east of Tucson and then head straight for the Four Corners country. Flash Flood
watches are posted everywhere.
Twentyish years ago, I drove from Tucson to Paradise. This was pre GPS guidance Probably 'cause I was bored with I-10,
possibly 'cause it looked like fun, instead of going around on I-10, NM 80 and a rural road through Portal, I turned
off at San Simeon on the Portal Road, which looked much shorter.
The first long stretch was nice blacktop, arrow straight, but fairly often, there was a warning sign, it dipped down
into a wash and back up. As we'd been through some pretty good rain as dusk fell, and there were some spectacular
thunderstorm lightning displays around, some with obvious rain, I had to slow way down each time to see if there was
water, then scoot across. It was, of course, completely dark by then, so there was no way to see if there way water
until starting down the slope, so the headlights pointed down.
Later, arrow straight went up into the mountains and turned into narrow, windy and beat up. The windy little road
crossed a stream with a ford. Again, it had been raining, the stream way pretty lively and the crossing wasn't simple,
with bars and channels. In daylight, it probably would have been easy to plot a course. As it was, I really didn't
want to go back around, so by headlights, I got out and scouted it out. Turned out to be OK, we got across with no
obvious damage to the rental car.
Wasn't much to Paradise, looks like there still isn't. A tourist map showed it as a ghost town. But it wasn't really,
both because people lived there and because there weren't the expected abandoned old buildings. The population had
just gone down 20%, though, as a family moved out. :-)
Humming Bird Moose
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