The wind-down...

Tuesday

We went for a drive around the burbs, stopped at Jimmy John's for lunch I had the Hunters Club.

Wednesday

We had a pool day, sunshine cold drinks and a lot of fun.

Thursday

One last swim then pack the cases in the car, we stopped for a spot of lunch at Coopertown, Alice Cooper's restaurant, Alex had "The Big Unit" hot dog, a 22 inch dog in a bun! I had the St. Louis full rack of ribs, after a great lunch we tool the car back and headed for the airport.

Lazy dazzzz

Thursday

Quiet day recovering from the 340 mile round trip to Bearizona.


Friday

Another quiet day, a bit of shopping in the afternoon - shoes and clothes!


Saturday

Went to the Mall..  Arrowhead Town Centre
Lovely, air conditioned with a really good food court.   Panda Express chinese food highly recommended!


Sunday

Back to the Mall to change the t-shirts I bought the day before for a smaller (!) size.  Had lunch at Panda Express again (was that good) and a bit warm when we left.  The car showed 118f!  Then after tea Michelle and I went to photograph the sunset on the outskirts of the town.  Quite spectacular, especially with the clouds and rain on the mountains.

On the way back we popped into the Walmart for some milk and parked next to the truck!  I was as high as the wing mirror...

Monday

Sat by the pool today again (something to do with the excessive heat warning we have had for the last week or more).  Too hot to go too far and definitely too hot to walk anywhere.  Decided to go out for tea though to Bill Johnsons Big Apple Steakhouse in Phoenix.  Had the 16oz T-bone steak with french fries and campfire grits - lovely.  Had real sawdust on the floor as well!

Lazy day & Bearizona.

Wednesday

We had another lazy day by the pool, the IHOP sounded good so off we went, I had the Country Fried Steak from the Hearty Dinner menu, and very nice it was too.  On the drive back in the car we noticed the temperature outside.

Yes that is 115F

19:05 in the evening and it's 115F it topped out at 116F in Peoria.

Thursday

Bearizona a drive through wildlife park with Black Bears, Bison, Bighorn sheep and other stuff it was a good day out, bit of a drive from Phoenix to Williams(West of Flagstaff) and the weather was a lot cooler as it is at 7335ft above sea level.

Goldfield Ghost Town & The Apache Trail

Tuesday


Superstition Mountain



Time for a trip.

We decided to go to the Goldfield Ghost Town and The Apache Trail for a day out and what a day we had. we stopped in the ghost town first and had a look around and took the narrow gauge railway around the town with Hurry-up Ernie the Engineer.





This is Hurry-up Ernie the Engineer.

It was 103F so we got in the car then set out around the Apache Trail, we got as far as Tortilla Flats, population 6 (yes 6 people), so we stopped for lunch at Superstition Saloon, I had the Bullrider burger - one of the house specials.

Onward to the rest of the Apache Trail.

Can you spot the trail?

So after 250 mile (22 mile of rough untarmaced road) we were home again.