Cottonwood, Clarkdale, Jerome and Montezuma

Jun 19

Up early and out for some windshield tourism, mainly. Hit a couple of state parks, moseyed down to a river access to chat up some kayakers. Gosh I would have loved to have headed down that small river with them. Couple of miles down - could have walked back for my car. But there's so much crap tied together on top of my truck that I'm loathe to extricate any of it. I'll have to do my yakking and bicycling after I get to the Greenhouse and unload all the extra. And I knew that. Just was hard to remember at such a tempting moment. Nice people getting ready to go... cows moseyed over and Ninja scampered over to see what's up... but then balked when they realized how much bigger they were than he.

We drove through Old Town Cottonwood and Historic Clarkdale (no pictures, just drove around.) Stopped at the historic wilderness train station in Jerome. Didn't go into the Ghost town or history museums in Jerome because dogs... but the drive to both of them was quite something. I did pop out to have a look at the Audrey Head - has to do with mining copper. Then the thing I was most excited about, Montezuma's Castle and Montezuma's well. They did not disappoint, but it was getting hot. Grabbed a bean crunchwrap at Taco Bell and a big <some kind of hydration punch, idk what> and headed back to the trailer. I'm doing this and puttering around with stuff in the cool a/c. The dogs sleep then every once in awhile they stir and think "Hey, it's nice, let's go out." So we mosey back down to the water front, but it's crazy hot so they don't really want to be out long, either.

I'm thinking about something (easy) for dinner. Likely a can of soup. And we're in for the night probably - except one more after-dinner dog walk. A few pictures from the day. Sedona proper will be tomorrow.