We have a visitor! My sister Dee is in Phoenix for several days and we are doing the tourist route. Thursday that meant
– a visit to a shop in Scottsdale that makes custom guitars (she is an avid… and quite good… musician),
– a six mile hike on the Go John trail in Cave Creek (a great break-in for the new Spiro boots I got in anticipation of the Grand Canyon foray in April),
– followed by dinner at El Encanto in Cave Creek (great Mexican food, equally great Margaritas for Ruth & Dee).

Go John Trail

Dee on a rock

 

Ruth The Hiker

(Route Closed? There isn’t a road for MILES!)

(look carefully: the two specks in the sky are not dust on the lens: they are hot air balloons)

February 19, 2009