Apache Trail

1/9/2007
Well we ended up driving the Apache Trail in the motor home. YES you can do it if your no longer than 40 ft, but beaware the roads are very narrow and steep, and curvy and i mean curvy. ours is a 30 ft, was it scary at times YES you bet it was, only good thing was there was not much traffic. We decided to do the entire trail, took us 7 hours with stops.
We first stopped at Tortilla Flats, neat place. all those bills on the walls. even the ice cream place was covered in dollar bills. We ate breakfast there Ham & Cheese omlet not the best i have had but ok. We sat by the window were all the birds are. The lady came out and fed them, man talk about birds and Quials.Nice and fat they are.
This place is covered in $1 bills, the lady said that last count was around $92,000 there is also a ice cream bar next door that is also covered in bills, not sure if that was included or not. Fire took the first building i think she said in 1960 which was a whole lot more money than this.
by the time we were done there must of been 50 people show up, don't kow if they all went on the trail farther up or not. had a few pass us on the road. The view was just spectacular. I am glad that we went and took the motor home and not bother with the car again issue, figured that another day would of been wasted. I had called Advantage and they didn't have anything till 11 and it was a midsize car of $59 well good excuse that was.. also wouldn't come to the campground to pick us up. Poop on them.



some of the squirrels taking a drink





WE left there and headed on down the road. Here are some photos of the scenery i took. go to there website above and you can get some better photos of the things to see i will also eventually add them on yahoo photos but slow connection is too hard to deal with.

This is Apache Lake
Click on the blue so you can get there webpage for more details. and better photos. Remeber all underline blue will take you to websites for more information and photos.


Here is some of the rock formations that we went thru, and if you notice the yellow arrow sign yes that is a really sharp curve. and this was on a dirt road, which by the way was not all that bad, just take it slow. and the curves were even worse than this one.





good thing there wasn't much traffic coming









Canyon Lake
And yes there is a campground you can park at and also a boat ride But i think i have this out of order this comes after Tortilla Flats if i am remembering right. Getting late now.





This is Roosevelt Dam
Not much water there.




We then continued to the cliff dwellings. Not worth the trip for this one. what a climb. Coming down was even worse for me as i don't like hights to begin with and no rails. We took Princess up there and had to carry her back down, cause i was afraid that she would somehow get out of her leash and end up going over the edge.










This was looking down over the valley from the top of the cliff dwellings.


Cats didn't get sick which really surprised me with all the twists and turns we had to take. But it was slow going.
Tomorrow we will go to Goldfield Ghost town just down the road and then head out and working our way back to Q might decide to stop at Ken and Bonnies again but not sure.

It was warm last night so am wondering if it will be that way tonight again. didn't turn the heat on till this morning.