About 40 miles east of Phoenix is a gigantic Volcanic Caldera, the result of five concentric volcanoes. -- now called "Superstition Mountain".
North of the caldera is a series of Sandstone and Granite hills, created one of the 13 times southern AZ was at the bottom of the ocean.
Between these two runs a small river carrying the melted snow from Flagstaff.
In 1910, a dam was built to create a reservoir -- enter "Tortilla Flats". It was a supply depot and stage coach stop for the dam builders.
A tortured mountainous drive leads past a real ghost town, Goldfield Az. Died: 1893 when the mine played out.
(Two Jewish sisters- in- law from Long Island in the "BirdCage" at the Goldfield Bordello. The birdcage was what you're thinking it was, an advertising technique. Every time... EVERY time I take older women to Goldfield, they pose in the birdcage. Hmmmmmm. ) DOLLY the steamboat paddles around the reservoir for 90 minutes. Ha! I don't have to go with them!
(An engineer and his wife from New Jersey who left their two teenage sons at home to make a personal trip to AZ. They were in AZ for their honeymoon and came back for their 20th anniversary).
Good news. This whole group paid me adequately. They can all come back.
No comments:
Post a Comment