Travels in Our Airstream

Saturday – April 15 – Today was nice and sunny but there was a cool wind in Williams. We left there and drove about 120 miles to Holbrook and it is beautiful here and not as windy. We have checked into the OK RV Park for two days and will see if there is enough to see and do here to stay more than that.

I was just sitting here working on my blog and a local policeman stopped by to chat to John. A real nice fellow and he told us a few places to check out. We went into town after we got set up and it sure isn’t much, it actually seems like a very poor area. We found the local grocery store and got some veggies for tomorrow night and they had 5 12 packs of coke for $10 so John got stocked up again on his Zero Coke.

We want to spend tomorrow driving through the Painted Desert and Petrified Forest.

Friday – April 14 – Today is Good Friday but the weather here made it a bad Friday! We were going to leave Williams today but when we went out for dinner last night Steve said he had checked the weather and there were high wind warnings out for today so we decided to stay in Williams for another day. John worked on income tax and I did laundry and cleaning – a real exciting day. The weather report was right, it was really windy and quite cool.

Steve and Cheryl came over for the evening and we again had a few good games of euchre with the women being the overall winners. YES!!

I am behind in posting my blog as I am waiting for some pictures from John that he took on Thursday.

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.