Road Trip Part 4 - Arivechi, Sonora

The paved road from Bacanora onward just kept getting worse and worse.  We were travelling very slowly over narrow paved road full of potholes, no shoulders of course, and almost never any guardrails.  The few times we did see guard rails we knew we had better be darn careful!   At times there were so many potholes that it was impossible to dodge them, there was just no where to drive where there were none.  Some of them were a foot deep so you didn't want to hit those full on.  It was slow, slow travelling and also stressful as the road also was one twisting turn after another.  We were climbing higher and the road was getting worse.
We saw lots of these signs, some of them with the word, "sinuoso" (sinuous) on them

and lots of these signs as well, many of them with 30 km. speed on them, and you needed to heed that speed limit.

I didn't realize until later that I hadn't taken even 1 photo of the horrible road.  I had put the camera in the case to keep it from flying around and most of the time I was hanging on to keep from bouncing around.  Now I wish I would have taken some.
I knew from searching online that there were hot water pools around Arivechi and we had packed our bathing suits intending to go to them.  When we saw the sign that said 8 kms. to the pools and looked at the gravel road that was even worse than what we had just gone through, we decided we were just not going there.
We were very glad to finally see Arivechi.

 This was the town I was looking forward to seeing the most as I had seen photos online of the kiosko in the plaza.
We did our usual drive around to find the church and plaza and were even more impressed than I expected.  Beautiful.
We chatted with a lady while we were sitting in the plaza and she told us that the lady busy cleaning the plaza has a son who is working for 8 months in Canada.  She also told us there was a petrified stone by the City Hall.  We walked over to see that and I won't say what I think it looks like. :)

Petrified stone

Click on the photos to see them larger or Control + click to see them really big. :)

We also saw these usual blooms on a tree there.  At first I thought they were just leaves; but the leaves were a very different shape and colour.

Odd flowers.

The plaza is really pretty with a fountain and benches in the shade of the trees.

I took a lot of photos of the kiosk as it is just so unusual.  The town is named Arivechi in honour of Arivechi San Javier, who had the kiosk built as a replica of the kiosk in the plaza Santa Maria Rivera in Mexico City or so I read anyway.

This was the last town on the road before Yecora where we were going to spend the night.  So, back onto the horrible highway and onward we went.

Road Trip Part 3 - Sahuaripa, Sonora

We left Bacanora and headed to the next small town of Sahuaripa which in the Opata language apparently means Yellow Ant.
Remember what I said about this being cattle country?  We saw lots of this on the road.

As always, once we arrived, we drove around until we found the church and plaza.  This town reminded me a bit of Alamos, Sonora.
Bought a couple of cokes and headed to the Plaza to relax, after all isn't that what vacations are for?

Lots of old adobe in these old towns

I liked the yellow fruit, white bloom and red flower

There wasn't a lot of other stuff to see in town; although there are supposed to be petroglyphs somewhere in the area on Carrizito mountain and there is a dam call Cajon de Onapa.  We aren't into hiking anymore so we didn't bother trying to find either of these things.  There is a fair amount of hunting in the area or so I read, the only shooting I do is with the camera so didn't investigate that at all.
Back into the car and onward to Arivechi.