More photos from Cherry Creek Lodge

Cherry Creek Lodge vacation....

Yesterday we picked Dr. Vince up at the Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport ..... a little airport in Mesa....and drove a very scenic 180 miles on semi-paved roads to Cherry Creek Lodge in Young, Arizona. The "driveway" alone to the lodge is 5.1 miles. We saw lots of billowing smoke on our way here and weren't sure what it was. Turns out, there are "controlled burns" in the area.

The lodge is in a beautiful setting with alot of history. Apparently, there was a multi-generational family feud. Cherry Creek Lodge sits on a 300,000 acre working cattle ranch. There are horses for trail riding, archery, hunting--- if someone is into that sort of thing, and Jeep Tours.. which is what we did.

This morning, we walked down to the barn to visit the horses, then over to the lake to skip some stones. We had a nice home made breakfast since this is a B & B. We brought all our other meals from Whole Foods market in our big cooler.

Later we went on a Jeep Tour of the area. This redefined 4-wheeling for *me*. We went thru some very rough terrain, rocks, thru creeks, into canyons, and saw lots of huge Elk bull tracks. Later we took a nap. Amazingly, Jazzy slept thru part of the Jeep tour as we were almost bouncing out of the jeep.

Tomorrow we will leave and drive a short distance over to Payson and do some hiking, stay there the night... then go back to 114 degrees in Phoenix.




Having breakfast
Checking out the horses
Skipping stones at 6:30 AM
In front of the barn
Jeep Tour