Playing Tour Guide

We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.

Wow! Have we ever been busy! My cousins arrived in town and we were off showing them every single place we had visited ourselves earlier in the week. They had never been to Arizona and wanted to see it all in just three days. We were the guides for one day. We really had a blast but we were certainly tired when we crawled into bed Friday night. No. We weren’t just tired. We were exhausted!

We always have such a grand time with them. After all we all rhyme …. Terry, Jeri, Larry and Carrie. How about that? Well, her name is really Judy Carrie but we thought the middle name fit best for this occasion.

Friday morning the first stop on our itinerary was a stop at the Apache Junction Swap Meet. Just like I mentioned last weekend, that place is huge. We knew we were limited to about 5 hours since Duchess was back in the motorhome. We wanted to make as much count as we could in that 5 hours. After about an hour at the swap meet and hardly making a dent in it, we took them to the Goldfield Ghost Town. This is a great place to take visitors. It gives them a taste of what they usually expect the Wild West to have been. And, of course, we made the same little stop at the Superstition Mountains Museum. We took dozens and dozens of pictures.

We were only about 14 miles from Canyon Lake at this point and definitely wanted to take them there. The view is fantastic and the cactus that swarm the area offer an opportunity to take the perfect picture. However, those 14 miles take about 30 minutes to travel due to the curves and narrow roads. So, we thought we should probably walk Duchess before we headed in that direction. We dropped them back off at the swap meet again while we did our duty. It also gave them more time to buy more souvenirs.

Our new motorhome ?? --

About an hour later we were again on our way to Canyon Lake and Tortilla Flat. It really is a nice drive. At least this time I did get pictures of the inside of the restaurant at Tortilla Flats. This is the one with the dollar bills all over the walls. It’s like wallpaper. Their customers leave the dollar bills to be pasted on the walls. Notice the saddles that are used for seats at the bar.

We made it back to civilization before dark. Our destination for dinner was Famous Dave’s. It’s a barbecue chain that we’ve always enjoyed. However, since they hadn’t been there we thought a great place to introduce them to. Dinner was fabulous and we had lots of leftovers to take home with us.

It was a long day but a lot of fun. The next morning was to be an early one. We were moving to Tucson – 130 miles away. With high winds in the forecast for the afternoon, we need to get going early.