Kingman AZ

Our arrival in Kingman, AZ came with an unexpected breakdown. Luckily for us, David Steffen saw smoke coming from the trailer tires and waved us down. We had no clue. He thought the brakes locked but John saw it was a lost bearing. David and his mom and dad, not only stayed around to help, they ran to the store for tools while John and I ran to pick up parts. This entire ordeal took about 3 hours and they stuck with us the entire time. Even offered to let John shower at their house. Wouldn’t take a dime from us. OMG how lucky/blessed can you get? I can’t believe there are such wonderful people out there.

We finally made it to our destination 3.5 hours later than anticipated but, we were safe. We had some leftover tacos and went to bed. John had trouble sleeping because he couldn’t stop thinking about the bearing because he could not get a new race or new drum when he bought the bearing. I don’t know what he is talking about but, we spent the day finding the right parts and then he actually found a place that pressed the old races out and replaces the whatever it was we needed. All John had to do was put it all back together and we were set. And now he has another set just in case. That meant we only had time to visit a couple quilt stores that day.

This was Donna’s Quilt Store and I bought this beautiful Hummingbird panel. I just told Bridget she needs to order this because I want to make more than one quilt with this. Sorry I did not take a picture of the other store. I bought fabric but from the outside I thought it looked like an antique store and thought maybe the quilt store went out of business.

We opted to order out last night but everything seemed to be chain restaurants so we got Indian food. It was a hole in the wall place, Brothers Indian that was highly recommended in Yelp and it was delicious. On the way home we had some beautiful sunset views. The last one is looking outside our camper door.

June 2, 2025 1

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!

June 1, 2025 0

Standing on the Corner in Winslow AZ & Sedona

Taking it easy. We just passed through to get our picture here and then headed to Sedona, AZ. We needed some hook ups and showers.

We spent one night at Mund’s RV Park. We made reservations but, we arrived late so we didn’t get the code to access the bathrooms. We used the shower in our camper–which is fine– just a little confining. Munds is huge. We were in their “oversized” campsites which had no shade. Originally we thought we might stay longer but really didn’t like it there. We found some available sights at Dead Horse Ranch and booked 3 nights. Absolute heaven here.

You can see the difference.

We just spent 3 days at Dead Horse and traveled to Sedona and Camp Verde and even just hung around camp. This place is so pretty and there is so much to do. We saw a Roadrunner but I did not have my camera. I have been shooting with my phone most of this trip as it is too hot to carry any equipment. The pictures below are all from John at Dead Horse Ranch State Park.

Sedona is absolutely beautiful. We went to the Church of the Holy Cross, we wanted to hike to Devils Bridge but we realized it was a 10 mile hike. This old lady is not up for that. Whew! I like the shorter treks. We started the Brins Mesa trail and hiked about 1 mile in and had to turn around because I was getting sick. Ugh! I just can’t seem to drink enough water. We went back to camp and I took a nap. Me, the one who doesn’t believe in napping. I slept for about an hour. We went to Tuzigoot National Monument and hiked the 1/3 mile loop (that’s my speed) and then we went to the airport mesa to get sunset pictures. We got there early. Really early. Clouds came in and we took some pictures and thought we would not get much better since the clouds were so low. On the way back to camp the sky was spectacular. We should have waited. Although, we were on the other side of those mountains so maybe they didn’t get all that color.