Jim and Shauna's Excellent Adventure

I call this Jim and Shauna's excellent adventure.  Kristine and Janae came too, but they didn't think it was so excellent.  Our adventure began on Wednesday at about 2:00 pm when we picked Kristine up from Snow College.  We had the truck packed with all manner of camping equipment, including sleeping bags, pillows, ice chest, etc.  Janae wanted to ride in the back of the truck, so we installed the two girls and went on our merry way.

Perhaps you think we were mean putting them back there, but the fact is, we had two twin mattresses back there also.  We gave them a walkie talkie so they could talk to us if they wanted, plus they had all the food back there with them, so they were quite comfortable.

Within a few minutes, it started to snow.

We had looked at the weather report and knew that snow was a possibility.  We also knew it was supposed to be good weather the further south we traveled.  By the time we go to Richfield, about 70 miles from Mt. Pleasant, the snow had stopped.  A check on the girls showed they were in good spirits.

Aren't they precious?  We continued on our way and eventually came to Glen Canyon Dam.

We stopped in Page and ate at Subway.  The girls were now riding in the "back seat" of the truck.  I use that term loosely.  It's not as big or as comfortable as a real back seat.  We drove to Flagstaff, where we spent the night at a cheap hotel.  Janae thinks that our tent was bigger than our room, but the tent doesn't have a shower.

Motel 6, Room 221.

And following tradition, we breakfasted at Denny's.

We drove to Phoenix and over to the Superstition Mountain Museum.  Thank you Lisa for helping us find it in spite of incorrect google directions.  The museum is kind of a tourist trap, but had some interesting things there also.  There was a small museum and a gift shop.

Then there was the Elvis Church.  This church was in the Elvis movie Charro.  We went inside and much to our pleasure, we found Elvis himself.

Elvis has a motion sensor and talked to us.  He said, "Thank you, very much."  Apparently, people come and actually get married in this church.  Don't ask me why.

They had this authentic stage coach, hitched to some authentically fake horses.

There was a jail with a cute, real criminal in it.

And an outhouse with advice on how not to use it wearing spurs.  It was out of order at the time.

After visiting the museum, we drove towards the Superstition Mountains, the object of our trip.  Come back tomorrow for a continuation of "Jim and Shauna's Excellent Adventure".