Apache Lake to Kingman, Arizona

I left Apache Lake early Monday morning, up the dusty road, last look down at the cove where we camped.

I mailed my ballot from Payson (next day delivery guaranteed), then drove up onto the Mogollon Rim again and into forest

then down into the Verde Valley

 through the nice town of Clarksdale

and out to the pueblo ruins of Tuzigoot

Many interesting pots and other artifacts were recovered when the site was first  excavated in the 1930's

The ruins are the same configuration but almost all of the walls have been stabilized, so little of it is as it was back when.  Still, it is an interesting place and worth a visit.

The area had a legacy of mining and mining-related pollution, sort of addressed now.

I drove west up a steep hill to Jerome, a town built during then mining era, now a tourist stop for all the old people milling around.

Over the mountains, I dropped down into the      valley

then north through the high desert to Ash Fork on I 40,

 then in a big arc on old Route 66 through Seligman and Peach Springs

swinging south and west to Kingman through beautiful country, mountains all around, the essence glory of the basin and range country.