More desert scenery, the House Rock, free range cattle and a wonderful dinner with friends.

Where are we today ?

Congress Arizona

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          Another wonderful morning walkabout as the sun rises in the desert. Explored some of the back roads here and enjoyed an amazing desert sunrise.

now is that amazing or what?

one block west quiet country roads 

beautiful huge Joshua trees here

       Then hopped in the Jeep with Al, Kelly and Pheebie to explore some more desert vistas. Sure is nice in their Jeep Liberty can go so many places that our car will not go. (Suzie can we get a Jeep? )

Free range cattle everywhere here

         Looking for the House rock.

We found the "House rock"

      Now this rock is huge and the closer we get the bigger it gets! The Indians way back when, used this to grind probably corn or whatever in these rocks and probably used this huge rock as a shelter.

imagine what they did here

Kelly checking under the rock

under here you could have a house

These 2 lovely ladies can hold up that rock

that is one huge rock

hey Me  and Suzie 

split rock 

Al spotted something

He spotted a yellow jacket, attacked by a cactus

love this Saguaro

Can you see the free range cattle, given the finger ?

Pheebie gets a drink

Cattle peeking at us

this watering hole in the desert is called a tank

        Now to the original site of Congress, now all gone, moved on down the road, but the old cemetery is still here. A few headstones from the late 1800's and early 1900's , well over 100 years ago.

      Now down the road to the mine. Al posted some of these pics a while ago but now we saw them in person. So real and so much like the southwest.

"No Trespasin"

Then around past this castle here in old Congress,

        After we had lunch at home, into town explore a few other places as well. So many interesting places to check out.

Al has a new friend

        Back home for  the rest of the day, relax, putter around but no sunshine today, a bit cooler and our solar panel was not getting much of a charge. Nice to have the generator for days like this just to top up our batteries.

cloudy day today

        Tonight I am not cooking,  hmm what to do? Well check tire pressures, store our Weber Q and read for a while. Al and Kelly want to treat us to a pizza and a very good pizza it was. Huge, the 4 of us could not finish it.

         That's it , we had a feast and more non stop conversation until time to call it quits, gotta go home and leave these people alone. Getting late ya know.
        Tomorrow heading a bit further south into the desert to enjoy more desert vistas.
        Nice that y'all dropped by and hope you had a wonderful day too.

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