Wednesday night, July 21,2010. We're spending the night, and doing laundry, in Goodyear, Arizona, about 40 miles west of Phoenix. Very nice town. Lots of stuff. We would have gone further, but the next town with accommodations is 90 miles away! Today we took a 5 mile hike in Saguaro NP East. Saw our first jackrabbit, a roadrunner, and some ground squirrels. And lots of saguaro cactus, though not so many as in SNP West. This was more like I had expected the park to look--more like the pictures you always see. You can take a picture of a single cactus without a million in the background.
Something else about rattlesnakes. Because of the availability of antivenin, it's rare for someone to die of a bite. However, a single course of treatment (some people need 2 or 3) consists of 21 vials of antivenin, and each vial costs $6,000! So be careful out there, you young, tattooed, drunk males.
Tomorrow we're heading to Joshua Tree National Park, California.
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