Cottonwood & Jerome 7/25

7/25  monday
Off to do some geocaching with Kathy/Derek.  Our plans was to do some caching in Cottonwood but since the weather was hot there we elected to travel to Jerome.  Our first stop was in Sedona for a couple of rual caches then onto Cottonwood for lunch.  From here we continue on Hwy89A to Jerome. Getting some rain along the way.  Nice visit in Jerome. Back to Cottonwood for some geocaches and home.   We found 15 caches and returned about 8pm.  Fun day.

Sedona

Sedona-some art work

Sedona

Clarkdale- near Verde Train depot.  Found geocache

Jerome-note the sign. "House of Joy" mmmmm

Jerome-top of hill. Hotel. Found cache.  Hotel close do to filming of Ghost Hunters

View from Jerome

Jerome-hotel on hill. Was a hospitla in the'30's

Jerome- cute

Cottonwood - last cache of the day

Cliff Casino 7/24 sun

Sunday  7/24    After work (230p) Bob/Vickie and Eduardo headed to Camp Verde Cliff casino off of
 I-17 , about a 1 hr 20 min drive from the RV park.  Vickie did great where as Ed & I won just a little. Back to Flagstaff for some dinner at Windy's before retuning home at 9pm.

HappyHour in Flagstaff 7/22

friday 7/22
After work (4:30), headed to Flagstaff to meet Kathy/Jim for "Happy Hr" at Monsoon rstr. Located at the Square in old part of Flagstaff.  Great H.Hr food.   Rice rolls stuffed with lobster.  Mmmm. Then we walked around the square.  On summer fridays they have a concert followed by a movie.  Very popular events put on  by the local business.   Fun music.

concert

lots of people

Cathy & Jim

Geocaching event/dinner 7/21

Thur  7/21/11
This geocaching event was held out at Louie's Chicken Shack (6pm)  in Flagstaff on Rt 66.  About 18/20 people were there.  Very nice.   Lots of geocaching stores to  hear.   BBQ food was great.  Fun Evening.

woody1946

Clint Wells dinner 7/20

7/20  Wed
After work (4:30) I headed to Winslow and onto hwy 87 to Clint Wells.  About a 11/2 drive from the RV park.  I was invited to join Bunny/Jim and Faith/Paul for a camp out dinner.  They were camping out there about a 2 mi drive from hy87 on forest service road 141 to their site.  Nice dinner. Faith & I check our phone appl/Geocaching and determine that a geocache was .5 down the road. Its about 7:30p . So we went for it.  Found it and back by dark.  Had dessert and back on the road for home. Arriving about 10:30pm  Nice evening.

Jim, Faith, Bunny & Paul

signing geo log

Found geocache

Show Low again 7/17-19

7/17-19  sunday afternoon to tue afternoon.
Headed back to Show Low after work on sunday afternoon.  Arrived at TJ's place about 5:15p. Had a snack then onto Bill/Chuck's place (community hall) for some card games with Ken/Scott and 4 other gals.  Fun evening.  Monday we visit with Connie and then took in a movie-Harry Potter.  Mexcian food for dinner in S.Low.  Tuesday some geocaching, lunch then back to Meteor Crater.

geocache at the Library - Book is the log book

Five mile ride on Rim FS road off of Hwy 60

Rim with canyon behind me

geocache area next to Show Low lake

Show Low lake

Cottonwood 7/12 tue

7/12 tuesday   Trip to Cottonwood for some geocaching.
Our adventure (kathy/dereck & myself) was traveling on I-17, onto Hwy 260 and 89A thru Sedona before returning to meteor crater.
  First stop was for some gas at Kachina (I-17 6mi south of Flagstaff). There's a new park call Raymond park which had a geocache.  Further down the road we found another cache.
  Next  stop was for a cache on Schnebly rd (dirt road) about 2 mi off I-17. This road will take you to Sedona (12 mi) which I would like to try in the future.  We parked near Forboro dam then walked to the cache. In the area was a beautiful house with its own pond/lake in the  middle of the forest.
  Continue on I-17 with a stop at Vista point with a great view and another cache to find. Then west on hwy260 ( 3 more geocaches)to 89A. Stop for early lunch.  Then onto a dirt road  call Bill Grey road in this Cottonwood area having alot of geocaches.  The jeep did great going thru washes and dirt roads. 
  Headed to Sedona  with a stop at Dairy Queen  in Oak Creek before returing home at 8pm with 22 geocache finds.   Fun day.

Raymond park

Raymond park.  Dereck finding the geocache

deer

beautiful house in the forest

Foxboro dam

Vista view point I-17

geocache-tube contains the log sheet

Bill Grey dirt road in Cottonwood

Town of famous Jerome in the moutains

cool lizard guarding the geocahce

Finding a geocache   Kathy/Derek

Coming into Sedona-end of our trip

Bellemont / geocaching 7/11 mon

monday  7/11/11
Even through it was raining here at the RV park we decided to take off for Parks & Williams to do some geocacing.  First stop was in Flag for a couple of caches then back on the I-40.  Next stop was Bellemont, about 15 mi west of Flag.  This is the area where the tornado came thru last year.  Using our Iphones we saw so many caches that we decided to proceed into the forest.  Drove along the pipeline.  One cache was new and we got a "first to find".   We met a rancher/Glen who leases 1400 acres from the forest service for his cows and horse.   Some spots were wet do to the rain.  We saw Wing Mtn. Back onto hwy 180 to Flagstaff.  Stopped for a early dinner at Olive Garden.  Never made it to williams.  Found 14 caches.  Fun day.

1st geocache.  Sign was the log sheet.

So many busted trees from the tornado

Fist to Find on cache.

Jeep on pipe line sservice road, next to canyon

canyon behind m

Ranchers horse name Cowboy

Wing mountain

Looking towards San Fran peaks

water pond for wild life

San Fran peaks

meteor crater gang
Me, Kim, Derek/Kathy

Olive Garden rstr