Chilling around HERE
Temperatures here are a chill 33 during the day and 7, yes you read it right 7 degrees on a night time.
We love this little town, beautiful, quiet and with a wonderful vibe to it. Such a cool place.
Not too sure of the services this motel offers tho.
And if all caravans looked like the American Airstreams, I would definitely buy one.
Oh look, Mrs Fogg’s got a bear behind (childish but fun)
Standing on the Corner in Winslow Arizona, right HERE
A long old drive today from Sedona up 6,500ft across to Winslow for us Route66 addicts and then across to Williams, via 2 Harley stores for more T-shirts
And one of the many T-Shirts (sad or what)
And now a couple nights in Williams to chillax before we have to think about heading home.
And these were from 2017 when we had young Kevin in tow (wish you were HERE eh Kev?)
And guess what young Kev, the worlds best guitarist and singist is still at the Best Western and he remembers you! (He asked Mrs Fogg where her daughter was😄)
and for tea tonight, let’s try the 16oz Porterhouse steak each, oh yes!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
So finally a kick back and chill round the fire pit
As a foot note, I have a fascination with toilets around the world, after We were bought a book many years ago about weird and wacky ones from around the world, so I am always on the lookout for the strange and unusual, which is why this one in Winslow made me smile. Some gents urinals have an “aim here” target painted into them (usually a fly), which is positioned to limit the amount of splash back encountered, so I quite like the inventive approach by this little place, just aim for the ball!
Chilling and watching the stars HERE
A relaxing chill out at Casa Sedona Inn, nothing to do but sit in a 40 degree jacuzzi in 33 degree heat, go for food at a very expensive Italian restaurant where the waiter hovers and grabs your plate the second you put a fork down, then come back and watch the stars.
Next stop is Williams AZ and a lovely little Best Western with jacuzzi and outdoor fire pit (remember that young Kevin).
Yep we joined the Mile High HERE
Welcome to Jerome 5,280 feet above sea level or a Mile High. The road and scenery from Prescott to Sedona on the 89A is simply fantastic with 15 mph roads, no barriers and 1,000ft drops, it is spectacular and Jerome AZ is beautiful. It’s an old mining town (yes another one) perched precariously on a hillside and slowly sliding down by the looks of it.
The road to get here is the historic US 89 A ( A stands for Alternative). It’s a very old road with 180 degree switchbacks all the way and super cool it is too
So Jerome. What a super place. All locally owned and specialist shops, cool vibe and just very different
Next stop Sedona
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).
To US Citizenship, is to eat a hearty US breakfast of waffles
Eating her fill HERE
Next stop Prescott, via Payson and the Pinon Cafe with some funky signage inside and the town mascot is the Sasquatch after “apparent sightings” (guess there was no mind altering substances involved there then).
No signs of the Yeti HERE
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
Stopping to drink HERE
A wonderful run today on the old west highway with some spectacular scenery on a road cut into the mountains with 180 degree switchbacks and hairpin bends, moving back to Arizona time now.
The most amazing thing about a road trip like this is driving on a road for 50 miles and looking back to see nothing. Just so cool
And time for a Purrfect Coffee at Thatcher, AZ.
But if you don’t like the taste well
Bliss. Just the sound of teeny Hummingbirds having mid air punch ups
