Driving from Phoenix to Cibecue and Showlow, I begin to enter Miami / Globe as the announcement that the new Pope will be the German Joseph Ratzinger, who took the name Pope Benedict XVI. I stopped at a small roadside shrine shortly after the announcement to capture the moment.

Hello, from the summer of 2023, when I returned to this post for a photographic update. While I’ve explained this before, let me share that back in 2005 when I wrote the first brief paragraph and posted the photo, bandwidth limitations at that time made it difficult to offer more than a single image. Such were the days of dial-up modems.

A single photo hardly represents a day, and so here I am embellishing this post with a number of images that hadn’t made the cut 18 years ago. As for the deer here, I spotted them at the Seneca Lake Recreation Area in San Carlos, Arizona.

This defunct gas station/trading post and a bunch of buildings that belonged to the Seneca Lake campground have long been abandoned.

When driving north on Route 60, this is the first view you get of the Salt River.

The Salt River.

This corner of Arizona is part of the Apache Reservation, and the photo is of the Becker Butte Lookout in Whiteriver.

Try as I might to discover where I saw this old church; I’m coming up empty-handed.

The original bit of text offered me the clue that this trip’s terminus was Show Low, but from these last two images; I have to assume that I drove home via Payson, as this is nothing I can remember from the Show Low area.

With this final photo, I’m done updating this post and hope it offers a better visual representation of the locations I visited over the course of the day.