Passing into the land of the Cactus

Started in the dull first light after driving back from Lake Havasu City in the dark. Nice and cool but drier than yesterday. Just one junction and two roads today for 99 miles to the largish town of Wickenburg, Arizona. Mostly smooth road surfaces made for easy riding but I'm getting a bit saddlesore in the heat that increased to 94 for the last 25 miles or so after lunch ( which was in the only diner in a bit of a dump called Aguila). For last 20 miles resorted to pouring water over head and feet to cool them down.
The terrain and vegetation was more interesting than the low scrubby desert of the last couple of days. We got to areas of varied xerophytic plants including the large Saguaro cacti much loved of American cartoons and then into the green of irrigated fields. Not a great deal of bird life which is lucky as Keith won't stop to look! Did see a Belted Kingfisher on a roadside wire and I forgot to say Keith got to see his first Roadrunner doing just that on day two.
99 miles today at an average of 16.1 mph to give 6 hours 12 minutes in the saddle. 381 miles from Oceanside.

Hope, Arizona. The settlement that punctuation forgot. 

Prickly character.