Suddenly It's Spring!

Come, play the gypsy's role, if you will, and seek out the many places of interest and beauty of central and southern Arizona, and south in Sonora, during March, April, and May, the sprightly months, most delightful season of all for travel and exploring in this part of our blessed land. First you have a rendezvous with Spring herself, charming princess in her gay gowns, as she sets up her court in the desert and foothills. You will find her where the poppies bloom, and the palo verdes are yellow, all the way from Douglas to Duncan, Bumblebee to Bisbee, Wickenburg to Nogales, Salome to Yuma, for Spring's domain is a very large one, indeed, and almost anyplace you turn is blossomtime and the flowers are a'blooming. You will find her in the rolling hills of Santa Cruz and Cochise counties, the grass-covered, green hills on which cattle make little blotches of color. She dwells along all the highways except through the high mountains where the snow and winter still linger. Where, we are asked, is the best place to find Spring in the desert? Wherever you find the desert, because during these months Spring is everywhere. You will find her a few minutes out of Tucson or Phoenix or Casa Grande. And south of Ajo, in the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, where a great portion of the desert has been set aside just for the pleasure of the traveler, you will find her in all her glory.And now is the time to enjoy the full glory of this southern land. The land is big and there is something for everyone's taste. In May the marlin will be biting in the Gulf of California at Guaymas and the trip from Nogales to Guaymas is a travel delight. You can go by train, or by automobile. The road, paved in a few places, is easy to travel. The distance from Nogales to Guaymas is 287 miles and every mile is interesting. The minute you cross the International Boundary at Nogales, you are in a foreign country. Arranging for visas is an easy matter. Along the road are missions and little sleepy Mexican townsImuris, Magdalena, Santa Ana-and 185 miles south of Nogales is Hermosillo, the capital city of the state of Sonora, a brisk and beautiful city with modern hotels and cafes. Guaymas, at one time Mexico's most important west coast city, is now the center of commercial and recreational fishing. The town dates from French colonial days and even today bears the scars of battles between Mexican and French forces in the early part of the 19th century. There are superb tourist accommodations available in Guaymas, and the fishing there is described as the finest deep sea fishing in this hemisphere.

Farther north on the Gulf is Rocky Point, reached by paved road from Ajo, through Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and across the great Sonora desert, a fishing center that each year is attracting more and more visitors. The Gulf in this area is noted for sea