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| A great Torta from the Verde Lea |
Well life
on the road is never dull, and often plans change!!! We had booked Ruakiwi in
for her regular service to a great RV Service Centre attached to an RV park in Cottonwood that had been recommended to us, and planned
to travel to Jerome afterwards.
They found
that the front absorbers needed replacing which we were happy to have done
along with the regular service. But there were issues with the parts that
resulted in the van still being in the workshop at 5pm, so they hooked us up to
power and we stayed the night in their yard.
We were
able to contact Sue who we met at camp on the first night as we had planned to
share a camp dinner. Sue ended up coming to the yard and picking us up and we
went to dinner at a local restaurant called The Little Red Schoolhouse, that
had been recommended, and what a great night. The food was fantastic and we
ended up with a great bottle of Napa Chardonnay from the Hess Winery….we had
visited this with Pam when we were touring (were thinking of you last night
when we drank it Pam!!)
During the
day we walked up town a way to get some lunch and happened upon a small local
Mexican café called the Verde Lea, well what a find. We were met by the owner,
Bill who was such a character and all the staff made us feel welcome. We were
looking blankly at the choices, so he came to the rescue and said “this is what
you need” and before long Ian was presented with a Torta and I had the Tacos.
They were the freshest and best Mexican food we had ever eaten and by the
number of locals that came in and out while we were there it obviously is
extremely popular. So don’t pass through Cottonwood
without stopping at the Verde Lea.
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| Ian and Bill |
This
morning discovered that for the past 3 days we had our clocks an hour fast, had
changed to Mountain Time in Utah and as Arizona is also Mountain Time didn’t think anything of
it….but for some reason the rest of the country observes Daylight Saving until
the beginning of November, except Arizona!!!
No scenic
photos today, but we had a lot of fun in town!
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| The girls at the cafe were great. |
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| Valerie and John, enjoyed meeting them at lunch |
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| A novel way of displaying jewellery in a Western Store in town. |
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