April 28, 2014 Travel to Winslow

Today starts our eighth year of travel – we are so so blessed!

We left our little spot at the Show Low Elks and continued on our journey north.

Past the trees:

And small farms:

Thru a few small towns:

Past windmills:

The road goes on forever:

The most amazing thing for us is the altitude in all this travel is over 5500’ – WOW!  We are officially on the Colorado Plateau.

The topography started to change to these incredible rock formations:

We made our way into Holbrook where we were greeted by these cuties:

Route 66 Wigwam Motel in Holbrook:

Geronimo has everything – :

Here where Geronimo sells his “stuff”:

More interesting rock formations:

The San Francisco Peaks are majestic, aren’t they?

The stories this house could tell:

We arrived at McHood Clear Creek Reservoir Campground and this is our site:

Our views:

The best part is it is a free campground – and we can stay for 14 days.

Our Bella is enjoying her new views:

After we set up and had lunch, we made our way into Winslow.

Remember the song “Take It Easy” performed by the Eagles. (Written by Jackson Browne and Glenn Fry)

The lyrics:

"Take It Easy"

Well, I'm running down the road
tryin' to loosen my load
I've got seven women on
my mind,
Four that wanna own me,
Two that wanna stone me,
One says she's a friend of mine
Take It easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own wheels
drive you crazy
Lighten up while you still can
don't even try to understand
Just find a place to make your stand
and take it easy
Well, I'm a standing on a corner
in Winslow, Arizona
and such a fine sight to see
It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed
Ford slowin' down to take a look at me
Come on, baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is
gonna save me
We may lose and we may win though
we will never be here again
so open up, I'm climbin' in,
so take it easy
Well I'm running down the road trying to loosen
my load, got a world of trouble on my mind
lookin' for a lover who won't blow my
cover, she's so hard to find
Take it easy, take it easy
don't let the sound of your own
wheels make you crazy
come on baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is
gonna save me, oh oh oh
Oh we got it easy
We oughta take it easy

Winslow had suffered a loss of commerce when Interstate 40 bypassed the town, but the popularity of the song led to new attention for Winslow and a commercial upswing.

The famous corner:

Andy looking for:

The girl in the flatbed Ford:

 

The rest of the famous corner:

My new friend:

Another great day!  We will be doing some sightseeing so stay tuned and enjoy today.

Stats:

Miles Traveled:  87 Miles

Routes Traveled:

Arizona: Whipple Street; Central Avenue; Deuce of Clubs/US-60; SR-77; I40B; I40; Transcon Lane; East Third Street; SR87; SR99; McHood Park

April 25–27, 2014 Show Low

This blog will not be in chronological order so bear with me

So how did Show Low get it’s name?  Well….

This park is right on the main street “Deuce of Clubs.”

Cooley and Clark:

Aren’t they the cutest :

The site of Cooley’s home – now a church:

Show Low’s Veterans Memorial:

Petrified Log:

On Saturday, a storm came thru our area and brought lots of wind, rain sheet and yes, snow – Yikees:

It was beautiful!  But by that evening the sun was shining and the snow was gone.  Oh well.

I have been playing with the camera on my smartphone.  The snow pictures were taken with the phone along with those below.  I am really liking this phone!

Andy took a lot of the pictures with his phone of the Salt River Canyon – posted a few days ago.  These phone cameras are great!

We really do like this area and will be back.  Both of us would love to spend a summer here and will put that in our future plans – .

Today, Sunday, 27th is a big milestone for us – the end of 7 years living our dream.  We are so so blessed and thankful to be able to live our dreams, see the spectacular sights of this continent and meet some wonderful folks.  May we have many more experiences to come – .

Tomorrow we continue our travels north so stay tuned and enjoy today.