We headed south through the park, a quick stop at Badwater, then a slight detour to visit Tecopa Hot springs. Tecopa is a weird place. The only reason we know of it is that its on the way to the Date Ranch. The first time stopped there we noticed all these clay pots everywhere. They were all for sale, so we've bought two. This time, the pots are still there but apparently not for sale? We couldn't find anybody in authority. We didn't have time to visit the Date Ranch...Tecopa Hot Springs is NOT worth a visit by itself!
We continued south across the desert, through Baker, Searchlight, Bull Head City and Kingman. The scenery is spectacular, good roads, no traffic. Until, that is, you get on Rt 93 and 60 to go directly some 150 miles from Kingman to Peoria (Phoenix). This is a bad road....future I-7 the sign says.
By mid-afternoon the clouds a had rolled in and rain was threatening. The forecast we'd heard last night was for rain for the next few days. Not good baseball weather. And does it rain in Arizona? As we left Kingman it started raining hard and we were preparing ourselves for a rain-out. But, as luck would have it, as we neared Phoenix the rain stopped! Must be we outran it.
We found our hotel, right across the street from the ballpark, checked into our room and got to the game just a Ichiro was earning a walk in the 2nd inning. Nice little ballpark which the Mariners share with the Padres.We had our ballpark hot dog for dinner and left in the 8th inning as the rains began again. M's lost 4-1. Lots of new names..the M's are in rebuild mode.
Tomorrow afternoon we'll see another game at the White Sox in Glendale, then meet our Boise friends the Nappi's for dinner.
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