Travel Blog

So we have a couple of games under our belts, and I'm going to be honest...it hasn't been all that fun. It's the usual coupling of poor communication and incomplete training. But we'll muddle through. I'll write a post just about our experiences at work, but it's my one day off before we get back to it for the next three days, so I'll save it for late this week.

Anyway, today was our return trip to Casa Grande Ruins for the behind-the-scenes tour. We're really glad we did it. It was an interesting tour, and not too many people get to see what we got to see. The NPS only offers these tours in March, and only on the weekends, one tour per day. So we feel pretty lucky.
I'll let the pictures do the talking.

Off limits (but not to us today!):

What they call Compound B:

Another shot of Compound B:

Closeup to one of the houses:

All along the walk, we got to see a bunch of pottery shards and pieces of obsidian. I was amazed because the tour guide told us it was ok to pick them up and look closely at them, as long as we put them back. I thought that was pretty generous.

Ground littered with pot shards:

Phil holding a particularly good example of the Hohokum pottery:

Stagecoach trail that led to Florence, Arizona in the early 1900s:

And during the walk, we were told about burrowing owls (I have to look them up online) and a couple of Great Horned Owls that live in the Big House. So when we were done with the hike, Phil and I went back to the Big House to try to see them. We saw one.

Shhhh, he's sleeping: