KEEPING TRACK OF ERWIN & GAIL: Still in Arizona

Here we go again.

From our campsite in Mojave Valley we drove on the, or at least a part of the, famous Route 66, made famous by the many movie stars that drove on it, or have led us all to believe they drove on it. None-the-less we did drive on it and found it to be quite a challenge. After a short but time consuming drive the first place we came to was the town of Oatman. RT 66 goes right through the town on the only street in town. We drove through then walked back to visit the town. We went into many quaint little shops and stores, we walked through an underground mine, witnessed a bank robbery and gunfight right there in the street, all this while trying to keep all the burros from trampling little Kelsey who was not the least bit impressed with their attentions. The burros are leftover from the mining times and are now wild and protected spices that have chosen Oatman as a place to abide and of course they get well fed by all the tourists. Burros, like any donkey have a built in dislike for anything that is doglike and Kelsey didn’t think they were all that great either. We drove from there for an hour or so on some real steep winding road-like places until we came to a place called Cool Springs where the person running the only place there, a really big not overly attractive motorcycle type guy, told us we had come 9 miles from Oatman and had in that distance negotiated some 129 turns in the road. The trip from there to Kingman AZ, was somewhat more like driving on a real two lane highway, and from there we took the “I- 10” freeway back to the campsite.

The next day we got up early and drove for 3 ½ hrs. to see a very big hole in the ground. We drove and walked and drove and walked along the rim of this very big hole in the ground and every time we looked over the edge we saw a very big hole in the ground. This hole in the ground was of course the Grand Canyon and was definitely worth the drive. There is a trail that goes down into the Canyon and I thought that in years long gone by I would have loved to walk on it from one side of the hole to the other. I thought if I tried that now I would be stuck at the bottom for ever, sort of a forced retirement thing. So, you people that are not bottomed out yet, don’t wait till you are, go to the Grand Canyon and take a walk on The Bright Angle Trail. We returned home from there, had a good night’s sleep and hit the road again. We ended the day in Benson AZ. where we set up camp at the “Benson I-10 RV Resort”. We rested a day then went to Tombstone but let me tell you about that next time, I don’t want you thinking we are having too much fun.

God Bless. With love

Erwin & Gail