January 16th Last Friday in AJ

On Thursday the 15th I went out for my final ride with the guys.  We headed to 4 peaks, up by Lake Roosevelt.  I took a another friend Wes,  he lives in Lakewood, but we met them here 6 years ago and have been friends ever since.

 The RZR looks nice and clean again, how much mud will we find today?  This is suppose to be mostly road ride and nice and easy.

Our goal is to get up to the back side of the 4 peaks right in front of us.

We are getting close to 3500 feet and the Saguaro are starting to thin out up here.

Rock and more rocks, the higher we get the bigger the boulders.

Someone got caried away with this pile of boulders, a lot of them are bigger then the RZR.

I though this was a neat rock formation, what do you think it is?

We are up over 4500 feet now and no more Saguaro.

This is Wes near the RZR and Jim, we need a break to get out and move around a little.

The north slopes still had snow on them, here are a few more pictures.

We were able to see Roosevelt Lake from the 4 peaks that we are on.

We only 10 miles from the lake and HWY 188.

 These two road signs were only a couple hundred yards apart but Highway 87 is where the truck is parked.  We went another 6 miles down towards Highway 188 to get out of the wind and eat lunch.

It was a nice easy ride today and had a lot of fun just crusing around on these roads.

We came around the a corner and off in the distance there was this geyser of water going up in the air.  It was coming from  Fountain Hill, every hour on the hour for 15 minutes they have three pumps that get this geyser to over 500 feet in the air.  It was neat to see this, we have been there on St Patty's Day when they turn it green.  If you are ever in the area make this small town a stop, well worth it.
Today was a day Turbo hates, we were up and going early and taking Turbo to the vet. for his health permit. After a hour with the vet. we were on our way to Costco for three things, Paper Towels that we forgot on our last trip and some eggs and another case of water.  Yep, got out of Costco with just those three things and under $100.00.
As we were heading home the truck decided it was time for it to brake down in the middle of Apache HWY, middle lane.  Clutch peddle went to the floor and did not return.  After a few minutes, Cyndy on the phone to Good Sam, I got the truck so it would start with out a clutch.  Not fun driving a manual transmission without a clutch.  We made it to the Ford dealer ship.  The first think they said is I hope we have the part you need, it may not be here and the earliest we could get one is Monday.  Now you all know we are to be in Green Valley to start our Mexico trip on Sunday.Luck must be with us, they were able to get it fixed and I was very happy.  They had the part in stock which the service guy, Roy, said he has only used one of these in the 12 years working here.
After all that Cyndy and I decided we needed a dinner out so we headed to China City Super Buffet off of South Power road.  We had been here about 3 weeks ago and came back for another great meal on a Friday, Seafood all over the place, shrimp of every type, crab legs (didn't eat any of these to much work for the amount of meat you get), oysters, and fish of a couple of kinds,

As you can see a lot of people (seniors everywhere, wait a minute I am one of those now) and the serving area is nice and clean.  The servers are always bringing out fresh food.  We left with our full belly's and another great dinner out.
Tomorrow we getting ready to move. We are put some more stuff in storage and get the coach ready to move.  Sounds like a lot of fun, not!!!!  Been sitting here for over 6 weeks so a few things to check like, tire pressure, fill fresh water, and I think my list keeps going.