Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Quick trip to Yuma 8/2

Trip to Yuma   7/31 (pm) - 8/2
Driving time from meteor crater to Yuma is about 6hrs with 1 stop.  Left here about 3pm right after work. Arrived in Yuma about 9pm with the temp still in the low 90's.
Monday: Off to mexico for some dental work and a haircut.  Then Andy & I  met TJ, John & Bob for a movie- Cowboy & aliens, good one.  BBQ at Bob/Derek house and some card games later.
Tue: Out for breakfast. Then a visit at TJ's house to see his huge Decanters collection. Nice. Some shopping Wal-Mart.  
Left Yuma about 1pm.  A stop at Cliff casino before returning to RV park.
Oh yes, 114 temp on mon & tue. Mmmmmmm

Monday, July 25, 2011

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

Sunday, July 24, 2011

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.

Friday, July 22, 2011

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

Thursday, July 21, 2011

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



Wednesday, July 20, 2011

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

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

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