We were at the cabin last weekend. While out riding my ATV through the community, I stopped in the middle of the road with several bull elk on either side of me.

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We were at the cabin last weekend. While out riding my ATV through the community, I stopped in the middle of the road with several bull elk on either side of me.
While taking the dogs on an early morning walk, we met these two elk were across the street from our cabin.
Continue reading “Meeting the neighbors”On our way home from San Diego, we stayed a couple of nights in Kingman, Arizona, so that we could take a day trip to Oatman, Arizona, a former mining town along old Historic Route 66 in the mountains east of the Colorado River. The town was named in honor of Olive Oatman, a 14-year old girl who was taken captive by Yavapai Indians and forced to work as a slave. She was later traded to Mohave Indians and her face was tattooed in the custom of the tribe.
Continue reading “Oatman, Arizona”We spent yesterday at one of the local lakes with my daughter, Stephanie, her fiancé, Michael, and his kids, Rita and David. We spent a couple of hours touring the lake on The Dolly Steamboat. Well, it looks like an old double-decker paddlewheeler, but it’s powered by a modern engine.