Really Tuna, you should make a trip east.
Just come during the summer, cause like my kids describe it in winter "DIRT".
I have driven cross country many times,
and I think everyone should do it at least once.
There is nothing like driving up a hill and then all of a sudden realizing there is nothing on either side of you
because your driving on top of a bute.
Here's a pic of me at the look out from that bute,
I believe it is Black canyon, just north of Phoenix:
