Show Low trip 8/26-28

Trip to show low  8/26 sun - 8/29 wed
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sun 8/26
After work here at Meteor Crater left for Show Low.  Arrived at condo about 5pm.  Great to see Andy and TJ. A quick bite and then off to play cards at Bill/Chuck's community hall.
monday 8/27
After breakfast we (Andy,TJ, me) headed to Springerville, about a 50mi drive. First stop was a drive up Porter Mtn to see the great views.  Nice morning driving thru the mountains.  High elevation was about 9,000.  Lunch in Springerville.   A couple of stops for me to do some geocaching. Returned a different way on hwy 60.   Back at the condo around 5p. Then off to Denny's for dinner with Chuck/Bill.  Later played cards at Chuck/Bill's townhouse.
Tuesday 8/28
Relaxing morning.  Andy & I went out for some shopping.  Then we all went to the movie to see, Premium Rush.  Cool movie.
wed 8/29
Said my good byes. On the road by 6:30am.  Andy was heading back to Yuma at 9am

flowers on Porter mtn

Andy with the dogs.  Porter mtn

View from Porter mtn

me and Alex

road going up  to Porter mtn

stopped to place a new geocache



Creating a geocaching in guard rail

Springerville-andy

Springerville- Post Office

geocache

Springerville, Becker lake

Andy & TJ

Geocache

Show Low 8/21 Porter mtn rd

sunday - tue    8/19- 21/12
Show Low
sunday:
After work headed to Show Low.  Arrived by 530p  for the card game at Bill/Chuck's place (hall).  Then onto TJ's condo by 9pm.
Monday:
Nice relaxing morning. Coffee and reading on the deck.  Laundry.  Then at noon met Bill/Chuck at the Torreon Club house for lunch.  Just right down the street from the condo.   After lunch Bill & I headed for some geocaching off of Porter Mtn rd.   Into the forest, a little hiking and exploring some cool areas. Then back by 5pm. 
Tuesday: 
Just relaxing. Heading back to Meteor crater. Will leave around noon.

Lunch here on monday at the Club House

Bill/Chuck's new Lincoln

Off of Porter Mtn rd- in the forest- small hike to cache

Me

In the forest

Another goecache

Bill signing the log sheet.  This was tough find.

cache container in stump

Cows watching us

Top of Porter mtn- view of Scott's lake

View looking towards Pinetop

last cache of the day- log sheet inside arrow- cool

Show Low/concho 8/13-14

8/13-14/12
Left for Show Low after work on sunday. Arrived during a heavy rain storm. Just relax for the evening watching the closing Olympic ceremonies. On monday headed out early for Concho about 35 mi east of Show Low  for some geocaching. Bill couldn't go, having a bad cold.  Returned later in the afternoon. Then off to the movie.  "Hope springs", a must see movie.  
Tuesday:
Early breakfast. Visit a friend, Connie.  Then to Rainbow Lake for some geocaching. Another movie Bourne Legacy. A very action movie. Back for a nap before leaving for Meteor Crater.

Hiking near Concho- geocaching

a geocache

Rainbow Lake - geocaching

St Johns 8/7

Tuesday 8/7
Geocaching day.  Bill & I headed to St Johns.  Chuck is recovering from his nose surgery and wanted to stay home.   We travel on hwy 60 from Show low. Turning onto hwy 180/191.  Then hwy 61 out of St John.   Lots of geocaches -15finds  in total.   Headed out about 9am with a quick stop at Lowe's to meet another geocacher, azrockteer/Robert.  Lunch in St John's. Returning about 3pm.  Fun day.

hwy 60 from show low to St Johns

just some cool flowers

Man made dam in 1936

Bill looking for geocache

me

old mining camp

Earth dam on hwy 180/191

St Johns plaza

St Johns- just a cool old house

Bill signing log. 

yes geocache in a cemetary-St Johns cemetary. Lots of histroy here. Dating back to the mid 1800's.

Last cache of the day.  Off of hwy 61 heading back to Show Low

Show low/musical 8/6

Monday 8/6
Trip to Show Low
After doing my chores around the RV, I headed to Show low.  Arriving just before the heavy rain at 1pm.  Bill/Chuck  purchased tickets to go and see the MGM Musical review at the Blue Ridge Highschool auditorium. ..  The singers are from the Phoenix Theater.  Performance was called A Tribute to MGM Musicals.  The 5 singers were great. Very nice. Prior going to the auditorium we had dinner at Denny's.  U can't beat their meal for $8.00.  Nice evening.

Highschool parking lot

Singers on stage

Clint Wells BBQ 8/04

Saturday 8/04
BBQ in Clint Wells (south of Winslow)  about 1 hr 15 min drive from Meteror Crater.
After work (4:30pm) headed to Clint Wells for a BBQ and a poker game.  Some of my co-workers were camping in this area. Our Mgr of the Rock shop and his family/friends were camping here for the weekend.  Co-workers Toni/Summer and Kathy/Derek got off at 2:30p and headed to this area. Neat spot for camping.  After the BBQ, 7 of us played poker. Left about 8:30p since I have to get up early for work.  Did win $20.00.