Yours Sincerely

Comments and questions from around the state, the nation, and the world.

Dear Editor, Last week I received only the cover to the next issue of Arizona Highways Magazine; the Postal Service has been getting wreckless with my mail lately. I know that the cover is to protect the magazine, but since you only place the mailing address on the outside cover and not on the magazine, I will never receive that issue. I love your magazine with its beautiful pictures and geographical information, and when I don't receive it, I get mad.

Dear Ms. Estrada, We're hurrying at our expense a replacement copy together with our apologies. Alas, given a press run of between 400,000 and 500,000, our postal system perhaps can be forgiven for mangling about 100 copies of each issue. We cheerfully replace all losses we learn about.

Dear Editor, I've been a subscriber to Arizona Highways for many years. I used to climb mountains and travel back roads and do everything else in Arizona that you show in your wonderful pictures each month, but for the last six years I've been confined to a wheelchair. You can see why now your magazine means so much to me. I would like to tell you about a raft trip that a lot of handicapped people recently took through the Salt River Canyon.

We entered the river where the bridge crosses at the bottom of the canyon, and we floated down to Cibecue Creek (about seven miles). This trip was supported by City of Mesa Parks and Recreation and the rafts belonged to Jeff Jackel who works for the City of Chandler Parks and Recreation.... Just because we're handicapped does not mean that we can't enjoy the outdoors.

Larry G. Elliott Mesa, AZ Dear Mr. Elliott, Be sure to see our September issue with a spread on running the Salt.

Dear Editor, I do not like the photo insets in the May issue. You spoiled some beautiful pictures.

G. Hallam Dallas, TX Dear Editor, In 1982 I had the pleasure of visiting your wonderful country. Unfortunately, it was just a short time, but it still made a big impression. And I think how wonderful it is in Arizona.

I'm sorry I do not speak your language nor write it, but that is my problem.

I now see Arizona Highways thanks to my manager, who gets it sent from a friend in Arizona.

I look forward to seeing the beautiful photographs. I recognize some of them, and I am like a little child looking at a picture book over and over. I cannot get tired of it.

I hope I can afford to visit the USA next year and also Arizona where I have lost my heart to snakes and spiders.

Lissie Bachmann Copenhagen, Denmark Dear Ms. Bachmann, Ve er også kendt for blamster ag fugle. (We also are famous for blossoms and birds.) Dear Editor, When are you EVER going to do a WHOLE magazine on Gila County? I'd love to see the history of BOTH Miami and Globe featured. The whole area is teeming with history AND beauty. Please, please consider this soon. Thank you.

E. B. Rahe Valmeyer, IL Dear Mr. Rahe: Watch for our visit to Globe and Gila County in the September, 1983, issue.

Dear Editor, I look forward to receiving my Arizona Highways each month. Each issue brings such beautiful memories of the two years I spent there as an adult and as a child. I am able to share the beauty of Arizona with friends, with the help of your magazine, and they, too, are awed by the beauty of your state. Thanks for the memories.

Mary Wetzel Dothan, AL Dear Editor, I never heard of your magazine until last Christmas when my daughter and her husband told me they had subscribedto Arizona Highways magazine for me. I thought, why should I want anything telling me about the highways in Arizona? But I got my fourth issue today, and I am simply delighted with all of them.

And for those who do not believe there is a God, do you think man made all those mountains, lakes, and rivers? He also made men smart enough to paint all those beautiful colors!

Not only are the colors beautiful, but the history of the different lakes, rivers, mountains, and Hoover Dam are all so interesting, it is hard to stop reading when I need to do other things.

I forgot to say my daughter and her family live in Laveen, Arizona. They visit my wife and me two or three times a year, as I am not physically able to make that long trip, after stubbing my toes on these Arkansas rocks for more than 87 years.

Frank M. Hansford Hot Springs, AR Dear Editor, I quote from page 4, your June, 1983, edition: "From Kentucky, I rolled westward on U.S. 66...."

This would be difficult, inasmuch as U.S. 66 does not touch Kentucky.

Clarence M. Leonard Camdenton, мо Dear Mr. Leonard, We asked author James Tallon to respond, and he said, "I should have written, From Kentucky via St. Louis, I rolled westward...."

(Back cover) An island in the sky. The Strip Country's Kaibab Plateau stretches from the Utah border south to the Grand Canyon's edge. The plateau land of ponderosa-aspen forest is unlike any other place on the arid Strip, where cliffs, wide mesas, and solitary canyons exist beneath a sky burnt white. Gary Ladd photo (Inside back cover) Toroweap Point, scenic lookout 3000 feet above the roaring rapids of Lava Falls in the Colorado River. Getting there requires a 65-mile soul-filling scenic drive over back country roads. Dick Dietrich photo