Saturday, March 31, 2012

Off to Kanab, Utah












Off to see my sister Kim and help her move, we drove from Tucson to Kanab, Utah.  What a beautiful drive.  Get ready to see the many faces of Arizona.  This is roosevelt lake.



Oops, did we take a wrong turn.  Nope, still Arizona.
Check out this cool old rig going through Flagstaff.
AAAAHHHH...coming into Utah.
The Dam at Lake Powell
Kim's new House!!!
This is the backyard, note the nice view in her front yard.
Front yard.  We are travelling home today and gotta go.  Will finish later.

Friday, March 30, 2012

Back up to Horse Motel

Bill and Gambler peeking around the big carved rock, part way up to the horse motel

Lady and the Tramp. (Lady on right)

Check out this weird plant, the stem grows right out of the middle of that leaf.  Anybody know what this is??


Wednesday, March 14, 2012

29 again

Yup, I turned 29 again on March 4th.  Here we are on our Sushi date.  I had a great birthday.  Everyone here spoiled me rotten for 4 days straight and I loved every minute of it!
Al, Cupcake and mean ol' Grampy Bill
They had a little surprise campfire party for the occasion, here is Linda and Al and Chuty in the foreground.  This is at Dorly's right in her yard.
Yes, I did a girly girl thing and got a manicure for my birthday!  I know you can't believe it that's why I took a picture.  That is our winter home in the background.
Rode to hole-in-the rock.  Can anyone guess why they call it that??  This is my sweet little Lady.

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Horse Motel Part 2

The cowboy's left their cookery behind, we found pots, pans and a coffee pot.

Lady is standing tied right beside the old fire pit.  Notice there are trees up here, I mean real trees that give shade and shelter.
Not sure how they got these water tanks up here since there aren't any roads...
Margie making her mark.
The gang:  from left:  Al, Ray, Terry, Cupcake, Harold and Margie in front.
All the same everyobodies except your author added in.
Cupcake and Harold, married 38 years, met in May, married in August, good for them.
Crocodile Dundee Terry of Arizona
This is the cattle water tank near there and yes those are goldfish.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

The Long Lost Horse Motel

This is Gypsy, MaryJeans BFF

I am standing at Dorly's Horse Camp pointing to where we are going to ride this day.

First Stop, a drink at the local cattle pens. From left to right is Harold, Deb, Al,  Ray, Margie and Bobe.
How long can this rock balance like this?
Lady checking out the sights for the day.

We made it!  We left at 8am which is chilly here in Catalina and made the Horse Motel by 11:15am.  An uphill climb almost all the way, the horses were glad to get here.  There is an old wire corral, some cooking pots, a couple of water troughs, a spring for water and other little things they needed to camp up here when they were rounding up the cows.
This is a shot of Susie and Tom Dawson's house from way up there.
This is Dorly's Horse Camp,  Our trailer is right over top of her house and see our little white trailer in the upper right corner?
View from the mountain looking down towards Dorlys.
View looking up the mountain.

This is part one of this adventure...stay tuned for the rest next time.