We drove over to Miami, Globe and Claypool on route 60. They are about 15 miles east of Superior. We went to the Wal-mart for some groceries. The drive over is very mountainous and scenic. We just rested the rest of the day and got ready to move.
4/23/2007
We moved to the Turquoise Triangle RV Park in Cottonwood AZ. Cottonwood is about 15 miles west of interstate route 17 on route 260. It is in the Red Rock Country. We will be here a week visiting the sites. Peggy lost a filling in her tooth and made an appointment with a dentist in Camp Verde. Camp Verde is a small town about 15 miles west of Cottonwood at the intersection of interstate 17 and route 260.
4/24/2007
In the morning we drove over to Clarksdale. It's about 5 miles further west on Historic route 260. We wanted to see where the train left from. There is a four hour train ride through a canyon in this area which we want to take. On the way back we stopped at the Tozigoot National Monument. After the monument we went to Peggy's dentist appointment. The dentist told Peg she would have to have the tooth capped and it would cost $1100.00. She decided to wait until we got home to have it done.
Sign explaining the ruins.
Path to the ruins.
Some of the rooms at this site. Of course they all had wooden roofs and the entrance was from the roof down a latter.
It seems that they don't know why any of these people in the whole southwest left the area and they don't know where they went or what became of them. The people that built this are called the Sinaqua (which means with out water in Spanish). Tuzigoot is Apache for Crooked Waters.
This cactus was in bloom just outside the visitors center. Here is the link to the Tuzigoot site if you want more information.
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