So, you know how, when I travel, I like to get up early and go on my morning adventure walks… I have shared enough of them here… but when I went to visit my daughter in Arizona, she doesn’t live in an ‘adventurey’ part of town… so I went on an adventure drive.

I just headed East… into the rising sun, and found a cool little hill to climb… that isn’t the hill up there, that is just a hill I took a picture of because it looked awesome in the early morning light.

I took these pictures, and considered what to do next… I had time, my daughter is not an early riser.

Now, every time we visit Jessica, I see that awesome mountain in the distance… the one on the left in the picture above. I keep saying I want to go get closer to it to get some pictures, but something always comes up.

I stood on that hill in the cool morning air, looking at the sun rising into the silver-blue sky…

I love misty mountains disappearing into the far reaches of forever…

And I was struck by how green the desert is at this time of the year…

But mostly I was struck by an urge to get closer to that mountain with the awesomely steep drop-offs.

So I kept driving towards the sun…

And I did get pretty close to that mountain…

Unfortunately, I ended up on an Indian reservation, and there were no roads leading to the bottom. It might well be a scared place to the Native Americans there, and they don’t want too many people climbing it.

So all I got was these pictures, taken out of my car window as I drove as close as I could get.