We are now at "Sedona Pines Resort" located 2 miles outside the city of Sedona, on the way to Cottonwood AZ. Peggy's friends Dan and Barb Humbarger are friends that lived in Naval housing in San Diego CA. where she and Vern lived. The Humbarger's have stayed friends with Peggy all these years. They invited us to spend a couple of weeks with them at the resort in the RV section at the resort. This is one the best RV sites we have ever been in, or know of. In short, all I can say is that this is a high roller place. The Humbarger's treated us like a King and Queen. The following are some of the places that they have taken us to see.
Fort Verde, life through the eyes of a frontier soldier at the Fort Verde State Park. The fort was a base for General Crook's U.S. scouts and soldiers in the 1870's and 1880's. Fort Verde was the home of Officers, doctors, families, enlisted men, and scouts. The buildings left are all furnished in the 1880's period. There are many interpretive exhibits, period artifacts from military life, and history on the Indian scouts, and Indian wars era.
Montezuma Castle. Southern Sinagua farmers began building this five story, 20 room dwelling early in the 1100s. It stands in a cliff recess 100 feet above the valley. Early settlers marveled at the structure and assumed that it was Azetc origin, hence the name Montezuma Castle.
Montezuma Well has all the surprise of a lake and fairly lush vegetation in the mist of desert. Between 1125 and 1400 about 150 to 200 Southern Sinagua people lived here.
Tuzigoot (Apache for "crooked water") is the remnant of a southern Sinagua villiage built between 1125 and 1400. It crowns the summit of a land ridge that rises 120 feet above the valley.
The town of Prescott AZ. Founded in 1884 on Granite Creek, early source of placer gold. Former territorial capital of AZ. now a center for ranching, mining, health, especially asthma relief. Located here on site of old Fort Whipple is Whipple Veterans Hospital. Seat of the first Governor's mansion. and Arizona pioneer's home. Frontier days oldest rodeo in the west started here. Its locality places it in the middle of the natural beauty of north central Arizona. Rock and mountian formations such as Thumb Butte, the Granite Dells and Granite Mountian are nearby, and the towering San Francisco Peaks of Flagstaff are easily seen from Prescott. The period 1890-1920 may have been the most dynamic in Prescott's history. The stretch of Montenuma Street along the western of Courthouse Plaza was becoming known as Whiskey Row, due to the many saloons where a glass of "Old Popskull" could be had. Behind Whiskey Row were the Chinese and brothel districts. As many as 500 Chinese immigrants passed through Prescott between 1870 and 1930. Prostitutes and Opium dens were plentiful in those times. We did make a tour of Whiskey Row, but there are more shops, and restaurants then bars now. Prescott is one of the top five places to retire to.
We visited downtown Sedona a few times, a nice town, but a little to crowded for us. One reason it was so crowded is that the yearly Film Festival was going on during our stay. Some of the movie stars that were there were, Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, Johathan Winters, Rita Rudner, Rip Torn, and a few others. We played a few rounds of Putt Putt golf on the Resorts 18 hole course, which was is very nice one. Every night we went to the "Lagoon Spa" there. I would guess that there is enough room for at least 25 to 30 people in it. There is also a fountain that the hot water flows back into the spa from. (adults only, and drinking was allowed in the spa :>). We left on Feb. 26, heading down to the Tombstone AZ. area. We will be staying at the Apache Flats RV Resort, in Fort Huachuca AZ.
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