Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Flagstaff & Prescott AZ, 10/2016

We were fortunate to be in northern Arizona to catch some fall colors.
The view from Flagstaff's Snow Bowl Ski area. 


Loved walking in the stands of Aspen trees.

Williams AZ, an old Rt 66 town.
Old gas stations, motels and diners line old Rt 66, which is the main street through Williams. The town has done a great job preserving the old buildings which gives it a western cowboy town feel. Outdoor dining, musicians playing on outdoor patios and the train depot where the Grand Canyon Excursion train departs daily makes this a great town to visit and walk around. 

A Ponderosa Pine at our campsite in Prescott. If you look closely you'll see hundreds of small round holes in the bark. Here we learned about the Acorn Woodpecker. They peck round holes in the thick part of the bark, only penetrating deep enough to stuff an acorn in. It does not kill the tree. The woodpeckers fill the holes with acorns for the upcoming winter months. We enjoyed watching them at work, they're very busy this time of year. Funniest was when a squirrel climbed the tree and took an acorn, he had several woodpeckers squawking and chasing him, it was quite a commotion.

My favorite RV so far! I could live in this one forever.
A young, very talented, couple built this 5th wheel, it's amazing. Note all the little windows across the top, they fashioned it to take on the look of an old railroad car. The interior even more impressive, rustic and so well done. They were the talk ("rock stars") of the campground. 

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