Saturday
We are staying at Krazy K RV park in Camp Verde, just off I17. It is one of the nicest RV parks we have stayed in. Plenty of space, nice grounds, laundry room (yes we have done laundry today). Yesterday we had a great day in Sedona, today is chillout day. SO having done the laundry we had a visit to Montezuam's Castle, which is just about 3 miles up the road.
N.B. Montezuma's Castle has nothing to do with Montezuma -by an Aztec Ruler in the 16th Century, who was defeated in battle by Hernan Cortes, a Spanish conquistador. This has given rise to the colloquial name for tourists to mexico who contract diarrhea - Montezuma's Revenge.
Montezuma's Castle is an Anasazi cliff dwelling built in around 1200 A.D. when this area was an important trade route crossroads. The buildings are similar to those found in a number of places round here, as well as the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings 250 miles to the North East. They indicate that the people who lived there were relatively advanced, but like Mesa Verde they had disappeared completly by around 1400 A.D.
We had a very pleasant time wandering round the area, talking to a few people, we found a guy called Harry, who was a whizz on the Indian flute. After talking for a while we found out that he lived in a trailer about 6 sites up from us at Krazy K!
After our visit to Montezuma's Castle we returned to Cliff Castle Casino as Saturday night is their $15, all you can eat, Prime Rib Night, where we had another excellent meal.
this was one of the first places we visited when we first started our travels - loved it. Now I have to say reading your blog and knowing how slim you both are - you seem to eat an awful lot of donuts!!!! How do you do it? xx
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