
We really enjoyed our time at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument but it was time to leave. Our drive took us back up Hwy 85 and then junctioned with Hwy 86. The roadway was pretty flat as we traveled through the Tohono O’Odham Indian Reservation. Their land stretched on and on, in fact we joined it just outside of OPCNM and stayed within it all the way to Casa Grande. The lands bordered the Mexican border and as we traveled the roads we saw signs like “You Are Traveling in a High Surveillance Area”. Now they weren’t kidding, as there were Border Patrol vehicles and towers just about everywhere you looked and every once in awhile you would see 3 or 4 pickups stopped alongside the road with someone in cuffs. The area was mostly scrub grasses with Saguaro Cacti mixed in.


