Tuesday, 18 April. Fountain Hills, AZ to Prescott, AZ

Yippee, we are moving today!
We sat out and enjoyed our last coffee with the birds, snakes, scorpions, tarantulas, cactus etc.  The  packed up to move out.
Rob had to dump.  We have been here for two weeks with water and electric only, no sewer.  We did really well.  Black tank (toilet) has never really been a worry, but the two gray tanks which one is for the kitchen and the other for the bathroom sink and shower are always a concern.  But, we never filled them.  Anyway, while he was dumping tanks I went into town to find the redox so I could return the movie we watched last night.  It took me a while, but I finally found it and dropped it off.  From there I headed up the road to Prescott, AZ to "Point of Rocks RV park.
The drive was fine.  I talked to Mom along the way.  I hadn't had decent phone service so couldn't talk to anyone for awhile.
It was a two hour drive and the area is pretty.  I found the RV Park, checked in and found our spot.  I called Rob and he was only about 5 min away.  I waited for him at the entrance and then led him to the spot and helped direct him in.  Then we hooked up and set everything up.  Bella is always so happy once the fence is up and she has her house back.
We were both really hungry so we went into town to find a place for lunch.  
Prescott is a cute little town. 

 There is a really nice town square park and we found a place with a roof-top patio where we could eat and look out.

 This is the Courthouse in the center of the park.  There are 4 entrances to it with nice large stair ways leading in and different statues in front on each side.  

While we were at lunch we looked at the maps and "things to do" pamphlets they gave us at the office.  There is a lake a 5 min. walk from our campsite and there are tons of hiking and biking trails right there.

Naturally, after lunch we decided to go on a walk about and go check out the lake.  We discovered a trail that goes all around our Watson Lake and decided to go for it.

So the Watson Lake Loop is about 4 miles.  If you look at the map above you will see 4 hiker symbols.  We started at the upper right one.  That is also where we are camped.  So we started out following a nice dirt trail and soon it turned into "follow the dots across the slick rock.  Looking at the map, we did the Northshore Trail and soon we turned into mountain goats scampering, climbing over, slithering down and scrambling over boulders, stone steps, slick rocks and craziness. We went along the Over the Hill Trail, Down to Secret Cove Trail and Tree House Loop and finally followed that little trail over to Peavine Trail which was a nice wide gravel biking/hiking/running trail.  We followed it for about a mile back to Discovery Trail and back to our camp site.  It turned into 5 miles.  I was very tired, but it was pretty fun.

It was sooooo pretty and half the time we were scampering over these huge boulders and marked rocks.  Even Bella did an awesome job over the rocks.

 Pretty plant life with blooming cactus

 Right in front of me (above) on the ground, you can see a big white dot painted on the rock.  

 The base of the dam

 Letting water out of the dam

 Rock Climbers.

We actually started following the wrong trail at this point and had to go back to the dam to take the correct trail.  See the white dots to the left in the picture.  Again, those dots where what we were following over the rocks. As you can see, Bella had no problem with it

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It is really pretty out here.  I found a nice flat rock and
decided to stretch my back out on it.

It was nice to finally find a flat dirt trail

 These were the signs we were finding.

It was really nice to finally get onto the Peavine trail.  See how nice and "flat" and wide it is.

It was still a long way back.  Even Bella was tired and wanted a ride for a little bit.

We finally made it back to the rig, had an adult beverage while sitting around our little fire, then went in, had dinner and watched NCIS & Bull. After that we went to bed