Thursday – April 13 – Steve and Cheryl picked us up about 10 this morning and we took the back road through to Perkinsville and Jerome. The first 25 miles were paved road then it turned into a gravel road which in spots was quite rough, but the scenery was absolutely gorgeous. Perkinsville doesn’t exist anymore, but there are lots of signs for it, the best we could find was the Perkinsville Ranch and an old cemetery with quite a few Perkins buried there – it was interesting reading the headstones. There were two girls who died very young in the early 1900’s and there were a few other graves which were obviously children’s graves going by the carved stone animals on them, but there were no head stones identifying who was buried there.

We had lunch in Jerome and wandered through a few stores then carried on to Prescott. The drive from Jerome to Prescott Valley was very mountainous and pretty, it is hard to believe one state has so many beautiful and interesting places. Prescott had a gorgeous square in the downtown with a couple of nice statutes and there were lots of interesting looking stores but by the time we got there it was getting late so we spent some time walking around the square but didn’t do any stores. It certainly rates another visit.

We came home another way and when we got back John and I went into town and got gas and a few groceries. Later the four of us went out for a Mexican dinner which was very good.