Montezuma’s Castle and Well

This is my kind of hiking. Each sight had a 1/3 mile round trip paved surface. With the heat, I just can’t do much more. I think it has been hard on Chanel too. The ground is so hot for her and we have to stop to give her water. Some places actually have water bowls/fountains for the dogs. I am copying and pasting directly from the National Parks website. This 20 room high-rise apartment, nestled into a towering limestone cliff, tells a story of ingenuity, survival and ultimately, prosperity in an unforgiving desert landscape. It is quite impressive. For those interested in knowing more here is a link.https://www.nps.gov/moca/learn/historyculture/sinagua.htm

On the way out of Montezuma’s Castle–heading to his well we saw a sign for fry bread. We had to stop.

It was fried dough. John does this a lot when he has left over dough from pizza. It was a nice snack.

Montezuma’s Well was another 1/3 mile round trip on paved surface. There were some spiral stairs (made from the rocks) and John went down them. I stayed on top waiting to see his pictures.

After this we had time to stop at 2 quilt stores. One, Stitches, in Camp Verde and Quilters Quarters in Cottonwood.

We then went back to camp and made reservations for our next leg in Kingman, AZ. We are staying at a boondocker place there for 3 nights. Then we went to the lagoon so I could look for some birds–that avoided me at all costs. John walked Chanel around the lagoon and got pictures of ducks and ducklings and large Heron. Whatever!