Saturday, June 13, 2009
Our plan on Saturday was to make it to Phoenix by early evening so we could meet up with two friends of mine from Duke, Adam and Jen Burns. However, never wanting to keep things too simple, we found a route that would keep us off the main highways and let us explore a bit more of Arizona. We ended up following route 88 along Teddy Roosevelt Lake and the Salt River, a path known as the Apache Trail. From our perspective, the trail started at Teddy Roosevelt Lake, where the last handmade dam in the US still stands. From there, we jumped on the dirt road that would take us along the Salt River towards Tortilla Flats. The road itself was quite an adventure. It was only about the width of one and a half cars and had steep cliffs plunging off its northern edge to the canyon and water below. It was here that I learned of Katy’s not-so-mild case of fear of heights. But, she and I survived and arrived in Tortilla Flats, an old ghost town established in the late 1800s by a Dutchman who had discovered a gold mine in the nearby Superstition Mountains. We stopped for a prickly pear ice cream and then headed on into Phoenix. We made it to Adam and Jen’s around 5pm and met their 17 month old daughter, Nancy Kate. We had dinner with the trio and then drove to Scottsdale to stay with another friend from Duke, Ross Guttler.
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