Continuing on to Arizona

On Monday, we continued west toward Arizona.

We had seen signs indicating that the area of I-10 that we were traveling in New Mexico was a "Safety Corridor".

We discussed that we had looked this up before, but couldn't remember what we had learned, so I looked it up again and found:

Safety corridors are put in place in specific sections of highways, in New Mexico and many other states, based on crashes reported in those areas. These corridors have been analyzed by state transportation departments and found to have the highest crash and fatality incidences.

Well... that was interesting... but in another place I found:

Because of the designation as safety corridors, these areas may have increased police protection, and speeding fines are doubled within these zones...

That makes more sense!

Soon after the Safety Corridor ended, we crossed the Continental Divide with no excessive (or any) climbing required! (I always think of the Continental Divide running down through the Rockies and being at high elevation.)

In Arizona, we stopped at the Texas Canyon Rest Area on I-10 (Gracie and the Jee-rage in the rest area). Carl said that he wanted to climb the rock hill behind the rest area, and I agreed to wait, but then he noticed that there was a fence and decided he'd better not! I'm sure if there had not been a fence that he would have been scrambling right up there!

We made it safely through Tucson and stopped for the night at one of the more "interesting" campgrounds that we've stayed at, this one in Marana, Arizona. It is "interesting" because the lady who works in the office is the very opposite of friendly or nice. The campground is a Passport America park which means that our site is at 1/2 price ($12.63/night for full hookups), which is the only reason we come back! The same lady has been here since Dwayne and I first came back in January, 2015. I guess there's something to be said for consistency!