Alpine and Tombstone

 We left Show Low and went to Alpine, AZ. We stayed at Coronado RV Park. It was a really nice park in a Ponderosa Pine forest at 8050 feet in the White Mountains.

We had a nice big back in site. It had a huge dog park that Katie loved and a nice walking trail. Check out those huge trees behind us. The weather was a little cooler, in the 70's and yes it rained almost every day. We've never seen so much rain.

Alpine is a really small town, only 146 people live there but it has 3 bars. We only stayed a week.

We hooked up with Terry and Charity! They are dry camping in the White Mountains just 6 or 7 miles from Alpine. We cooked some brats on the grill. It was a really nice day. We saw a couple of deer playing around not too far away. Terry has 3 Basset Hounds and 1 German Shepherd.  It took Katie a little while to get ok with them. She got a lot of lap time in.

It wasn't too bad of a drive, but it was as far as the truck has ever been off road. 

But now we've moved to one of our favorite places! Tombstone RV Park. We really like Tombstone. It's still a small tourist trap. But we like it. We have a great site with lots of room. The weather is a little warmer here. We are still pretty high at 4300 feet. 

Of course the first place we had to go to was Big Nose Kate's Saloon to get THE best Reuben sandwiches on earth.

Next stop was The Four Deuces Saloon. This is a small place but nice people hang out here.

Tombstone has a great brewery. Lisa was our tap master.

Katie has a girlfriend here in the park. Lucy and Katie play around in the dog park.

We went to Bisbee, AZ. Stopped at the Bisbee brewery. It's an old mining town. It was a huge open pit mine and a hard rock underground mine. The Queen Mine. You can take a train tour of the Queen Mine. We've done it before and it was pretty cool.

The whole town is built in the mountains around the mine. All the streets are really hilly.

You take these steps to get to the next street above. Local artists just hang their art on the walls of the buildings.

Peggy hanging with the locals in Bisbee. Rex was a pretty cool guy. He told us a lot of local history. He was born and raised right in Bisbee.

We left one of our stickers on the tapper in the famous bar, St. Elmo's. Local historian, Rex told us it's the longest continuous running bar in the nation. It even stayed open during prohibition.

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Katie napping out on the top step of the RV. 

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

 




  

  

Tons of Rain

 Still in Show Low. We are going to be here until the end of the month.

The weather is still wild, nice in the morning and rain in the afternoon.

Barney was here for a week and we had a ton of fun. We took him to all our favorite places and a couple of new ones.

Barney is always ready to try new things. Here we are at 4 Silo's brewery, on our way to MJ's Hideaway to meet some of our Moose friends.

Here we are at MJ's at the outside bar with our Moose friends. The food is pretty good here. Peggy and Barney had the fish dinner and I wanted to try the Pizza and it was as good as everyone has said.

We did some cultural things too. We went to the Show Low Museum. It was full of old stuff and a nice HO train setup.

It was so huge it took up the whole room. We got a guided tour from the veteran who helped build it. He pointed out a lot of little details that we could have missed.

We did a road trip to the 260 Brewery and Distillery. The beer was good and Barney got some Orange Cream Dream Moonshine.

We visited some old friends, Lieutenant Colonel John and Karen we met them the first time we were here. They built a beautiful house out in the woods. They cooked us a killer dinner. Good to see them.

View from John and Karen's huge deck and yes, that's rain in the background.

Their house has a huge open floor plan. All built with very high quality.

 

The winning continues, Barney won the $5 pot at the Moose 

I won two little pots and Peggy got one too. We won 5 out of 12 pots. They might not let us in next week.

The Moose got googly eyed somehow.

We had to go to one of the few Trump stores in the country and it's right here in Show Low. They had tons of Trump stuff.

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Peggy found this man hole cover from the East Jordan Iron Works in Michigan. Back in the day we would go boating and camping in East Jordan City campground. They had boat docks in the park.

Live Happy and Always Go Big. 

Show Low

 We have moved to Show Low, AZ. We're at K-Bar RV Park. It's one of those old parks with your site number on a tree. The power and water are all good. They have lots of activities at the club house. We went to the 4th of July party. The park supplied the Hot Dogs and Burgers, everyone brought a dish to pass. The park is really quiet at night.

  Our site. The trees are a little close, so my awning will not go out all the way. But that's OK. We have a lot of shade from the trees.

The weather has been a little wild! It rains almost every day. The sun will be out most of the day and then it will just start pouring. Of course all the locals say we need the rain. We are at 6450 feet above sea level. That keeps it nice and cool here. High 70's and 80's. In Yuma it's been in the high 110's.

4th of July outfit.

The White Mountain Moose has Loudmouth Bingo. A couple of girls from Yuma have just started to run the game every other Monday. The pots are pretty low. We both won one, $16 each. The $5 pot was $80. That would be cool to win.

We found a pretty good Brewery out in the middle of nowhere.

The building is beautiful. We stop there on our way to MJ's Hideout. They have a good fish fry on Fridays.

  

We can't find any Greek restaurants around here, So I guess I have to make my own. I made the taziki sauce and cooked Greek Chicken. They turned out pretty good. I am going to make it again this week! 

We eat like Kings! Here we have Pork skewers. 

We made Pretzels in the air fryer and Peggy whipped up some Beer cheese for dipping. Killer good! OK that's enough about food.

Funny thing. We were out to dinner at the local Burger place and this kid was dressed like George Washington. How cute 🥰 

Heidi made new Korn hole boards and used a lot of the stickers we've collected, mostly from Breweries we've been to in our travels.

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We lost a good friend a couple of weeks ago. Gordy. We will miss him during our happy hours.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

 
 

Cool Weather

 A little cool and windy this weekend. The wind is blowing 25 with gusts of 40, but it's still sunny. It's a job to keep our mat from blowing away. Other than that we're having a great time in Williams.

We had Prime Rib at the Long Horn Saloon. It was huge. I got the 16oz with a huge baked potato and corn on the cob. This is our favorite bar. They have the Best bartender, Dana. She knows everybody's name and what they drink. 

Inside the Long Horn, having a drink with one of the locals, Jim. Almost every time we stop in here, someone has bought us a drink. That's why we love this Bar.

This is one of the trains you can take into the Grand Canyon. It's right next to the RV park. 

On Saturday we went to the local Cowpuncher Rodeo. It was not the pro Rodeo, but local ranchers. It was fun to watch. They had some events that you don't see on the pro circuit. One of the funny things was the wild cow milking race. It involved three cowboys, one would rope the cow, one would hold the cow while one cowboy would milk the cow into a cup and run to the judge. Pretty funny. 

They also had Wild Bronc riding. Their version had 3 cowboys who had to rope and saddle a wild bronc and ride it around a barrel to win. It was pretty hard to do.

Right next to the RV park there's a field of Prairie dogs. But they're not a good thing to mess with. They can carry Bubonic plague. So they are not that cute.

We saw Eric the Nomadic Fanatic YouTuber in town. We watch him on YouTube. He travels in this old school bus with his girlfriend and 5 cats and likes to dry camp.   

Peggy and I did a little RO water maintenance. We changed the filters. Good water is one of the most important things to keep on top of.

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An old picture of Peggy and I back in the Hobie racing days. We must have won that weekend.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

 

   

 

2nd Stop

 We've made it to our second stop. We are at the Grand Canyon Railway RV Park. We have a nice backin site. The good thing is, it's not next to the railroad tracks! The weather has been good, in the low 80's. This park is at 7000 feet. We had dinner the first night at the Grand Canyon Brewery across the street from the park.

Our site. It was a short drive from Clarkdale only 165 miles. Peggy let me drive all the way.

The bar at the brewery.
 

We stopped at Love's truck repair and got our leaky front hub fixed. It took 2 hours but we got it done! They had to replace the seal and the brake shoes. So we got 1/4 of a brake job too. Always something to fix on the RV. Under a Thousand! Only $438.

There's a car show this weekend in Williams, AZ. The park is full of show cars.

This was a pretty cool one with a hot rod on the back.

The last park was right next to some Tuzigoot National Monument Indian ruins. 

The Indians lived here in the 14th century, so they've been gone a long time:-).

Our site at Rain Spirit RV Park. It was one of the nicest sites we've had in a long time. Very nice small park. The park is at 2300 feet.

Whipped up a batch of BBQ Ribs on the Big Green Egg. Ribs are one of the hardest things for me to cook. But they turned out pretty good. I spritz them with DR Pepper at 265 degrees for 3 hours.

Peggy and Katie ran into this coyote on a walk just outside the park. That's a little scary.

We went to the Beer Festival in Clarkdale. Had beer from about 8 different Breweries. One had a cream ale that is what I like. The Brewery in Clarkdale sponsored it. The Smelter Town Brewery. Their beer was pretty good too. 

And you always have to take a trip to Jerome up in the mountains above Clarkdale. 
  

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Peggy got this picture of a pretty scarlet tanager in the park. The desert has some really beautiful things in it.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.