After leaving Fort Bowie we stopped in to get oriented at the Chiricahua National Monument. We didn’t have enough time left in the day to see much, so we picked a map and came up with a plan for the following day. We talked for a while with Vince, who was bikepacking the back roads from Tucson to Las Cruces and had stopped in to top off his water before heading over the mountains. We met a few interesting people on this tour of the southwest, Vince was one of them.
As we left New Mexico behind we found ourselves in the far southeast corner of Arizona. We camped just down the road from Fort Bowie so we made that our first destination as our tour of the southwest continued across the southern portion of Arizona.
As we left White Sands National Park we saw a mountain range jutting up in the distance. I hoped that is where we were headed and sure enough, our planned destination for the next few days was right at the base of what turned out to be the Organ Mountains. What a pretty place to spend a couple of days.
