Stopping for the night HERE

We arrived at the Motor Lodge which is yet another awesome little place, with 1950s decor and a welcome complimentary beer or wine on arrival. The sound of the cicadas is deafening.

Mrs Fogg finds all the funkiest places, what a star!

Next stop Sedona and the Casa Sedona Inn (which looks awesome).

So we did consider stopping for a second night at the Casita but a reality check of a 2hr min round trip to the closest supermarket to get food for the night meant we decided to drive on and continue our journey.

But first we had to drive back out of the dirt roads of the Casitas. Good job we had a Jeep then eh! Let’s go off-roading…

This is looking back from the dirt road at our Casita. Nope, not the buildings you can easily see, look to the left and you can just about see roofs in the middle of greenery. That’s the Casitas.

So here we are in Globe. A basic town in the middle of some incredible scenery but nothing really that holds any interest.

The interesting piece of the journey was traversing the Old West Highway (US-70). What a road, it’s a mountain pass that winds up and down, cuts through Gila National Forest, Apache National Forest and open grassland plains, not to mention open scrub at high elevation (cactus again anyone). A lovely road and so much scenery.

You can just about see the road we came down on this mountain.

And now for food. Most places are shut on Sundays so it’s off to Irene’s for Mexican. And Mrs Fogg decided to attempt a Chicken, Bean and Green Chilli Chimichanga, you can just about make the fire coming out of her ears

Mouth on fire HERE

Bliss. Just the sound of teeny Hummingbirds having mid air punch ups

Ah the Shady Dell RV Park. How cool is this? A collection of 1950’s RVs gathered together that you can stay in.

We are in the 1951 Mansion – sheer luxury for its day. How super awesome? All the fittings (including 10″ Black and White TV) are only from the 50’s so no WiFi or mod cons – with the exception of aircon (thank goodness) and a modern fridge.

We have a teeny record player and a stack of 50′ LPs so guess what Mr Fogg is making work right now? Yup, some old hip 1950s crooners belting out cheerful melodies. Now for all of you Millenials, a record player spins a 12inch plastic disc with grooves cut in it, the grooves are picked up by a needle and transferred into sound, this predates CDs, which you won’t know about either, oh you have missed so much!). The site also has 2 1950s taxis that you can book to take you on a ride around. So so awesome and easily the funkiest place Mrs Fogg has found so far!

Cool cool cool

And now a chance to watch a 1965 “B” sci-fi movie “Night Caller from Outer Space” on a 1950s TV. It’s so much fun

Founded in 1880 and considered one of the richest areas for copper,gold and silver, not to mention the quantity of gems located in the hillsides. This literally is a town unchanged since it came into being in the gold and copper rush era. This is the seat of the county when it took the honour from Tombstone (after Tombstone run out of steam)

Look at Mr Foog playing candy crush

It is about 6 miles from Mexico and has a great museum about the history of the place. It was one of the first areas in the US to create unions of the mine workers and in 1917 due to fractious rows between the miners and the authorities over 2000 men were rounded up and interviewed to determine who was protesting, nearly 1200 were forcibly loaded into rail carts and deposited over the border into Mexico told never to return.

The whole place clings precariously to the hillside with steep roads and houses that look like there are the originals from the 1880s.

Mining stopped here in 1975 but they are considering starting again as there is more to access. The place also looks like it stalled in 1975. A hippy town with plenty of unusual characters roaming around.

Love it! We have even been able to see Mexico in the distance.