We are waking up in Flagstaff, AZ, and we are taking our time, still trying to decide what we're gonna do for that day, while still heading towards Phoenix. We started off just going out for a cup of coffee and found this place:
A coffee shop called "Late for the Train". I suppose it's called that because it's close to a train depot, so they use that for luring people in if they're trying to kill time waiting for their next train, or so I suppose. We noticed that the parking meters in that town were really weird. I can't remember now what was weird about them, but they were weird. We wanted to leave our car parked there in front of the coffee shop so we could stroll around through town and had to ask the guy working in there if that would be all right. He said it should be fine.
So we finished our coffee and began our own walking tour through the historical downtown, just admiring all the old buildings and reading about the history on them. It was such a beautiful morning weather-wise, so we decided to keep walking into the neighborhood section to see what the houses looked like. One thing me and Chuck like to do is look at old houses. I don't know why we are intrigued by them, but it's a relaxing and fun thing to do. We saw a really old house that looked like a business, so we went in there and it turns out it was an old house turned into a ski shop. People in Arizona buying skis?????? I guess people do buy them and go skiing in the mountains. The lady in there knew her stuff about skis, but didn't know a whole of information about the house (we told her that was the real reason we went in there). Anyhoo, we kept walking and then Chuck saw this old truck sitting in someone's driveway:
So he stopped to get a closer look at it. He felt that it was a shame to just let it sit there and get rusty, and he really wanted to knock on the door and ask if it was for sale. Of course he didn't, but if we lived close enough to get it home, he might have. We heard a dog barking and started to feel awkward loitering in a stranger's private driveway, so we moved on.
We ended up at the town Heritage Center, which is sorta like a mall (in a historical building), and we went inside to see what kind of stores were in there. We ended up buying fudge from a fudge store.
We found a place to eat lunch and then headed south and went to a place called Montezuma Castle National Monument. Again, we got in free (tee-hee!) This was another place of ancient remnants. This community was built by the Sinagua people around 1100 to 1425 AD (so they say). Whatever the real dates were, again I was amazed at how people survived in the past.
This is a model of what they believe the dwelling looked like when it was inhabited:
Anyway, it was pretty neat to walk around there and see close up where these people lived, and where they had their different rooms separated, etc. It's fun to use your imagination and "see" people living here so long ago, or maybe even yourself living among them.
After that we still had some time to kill so we randomly went to this park and hiked on the trail. There was no one else there except another couple, but they went off in a different direction, so we were entirely by ourselves.
The trail led back to a small river so we hung around there for a bit. Nothing exciting, but it was still a nice relaxing way to kill the rest of the afternoon.
After this we headed to Phoenix and tried to decide how we wanted to spend our last day before going home.
No comments:
Post a Comment