Taking the Road Less Traveled

Saturday 4/22 Left motel @ 4:30am for today’s golf. Course is a hour away and a Time Zone, so early start. Sand Hollow is today choice. NICE course. Golf in canyon lands with huge vistas. The desert was blooming. Played 9 holes on their links course in the afternoon and that was fun. Golf ALWAYS…

Friday 4/21 Off we go to Coyote Springs. Very nice course, long. The ranger had everyone in hurry up mode….I don’t do hurry up mode. Did not golf as well as I wanted too, to boot. Stopped at the clubhouse and talked to the manager about their timeframe after the round. Lost my glasses also.…

Thursday 4/20 General clean up morning. Emptied the black and gray water and still have fresh potable water. The black tank starts to smell after a couple of weeks. It’s not the fun part of camping but being able to use the toilet whenever, is a nice luxury. Came up 170 which follows the Virgin…

Wednesday 4/19 Left early. This campsite was 10 miles or so off highway. Nice gravel road that climbed the side of a canyon. Got down and to 93N and headed to Lake Mead which is behind Hoover Dam. Big lake. Lots of boats. Lots of cars. Lots of motorcycles. I followed the road that follows…

Tuesday 4/18 Wasn’t going to leave early. But by 7:15 I was ready to go, said my good-byes and rollin’. Hwy 95N- two lanes each way then I40 towards Kingman. Tried a couple of frontage roads, one was a POS paved #.5. Did I turn around….no. Gutted it out for 10 miles. Did I learn…

Monday 4/17 Nice day for a boat ride. John has a nice smaller inboard. Perfect for this area. There is a LOT of boat ramps. Like all the boat ramps in Montana and half of Idaho’s. We went thru one of the arches on the London Bridge and upriver. Lots of cat tails and bass…

Sunday 4/16 Wild camped at the old mining site and followed the gravel road to Salome then AZ60, then AZ72 then got on 95 into Lake Havasu City and John Ricker. Nice pleasant slower travel. Golf course in Parker had a practice area stopped for a hour to putt and small bucket. Only one there.…

Saturday 4/15 Early start. Beautiful drive off the canyon down into Tucson. No traffic but I have to cross town on surface streets. There is a zillion club bicycles with their colorful garb. Old, young multiple packs of 10-15. I had noticed coming down from the canyon a slug of big calved head down studs…

Friday 4/14 Bill seems fine but only time will tell. Headed south on AZ191 into the stronghold of Apache country. It’s not desolate, at least not in April, you’ve seen the cacti flowers, but it’s a hard country. I spent a lot of time in this type of desert growing up. Every weekend. It’s the…