Gold Canyon RV and Golf Resort

Gold Canyon RV and Golf Resort has a fabulous location near the Superstition Mountains, east of Phoenix, Arizona on State Highway 60. We really enjoy the people and the location.
This is our own little piece of the resort, where we sit in the sun and just laze around enjoying ourselves. Our unit is the white and green Winnebago Chieftain.

This is Clive. When the green machine is not parked in a resort, he is the captain and chief and intrepid leader on the road.......as long as Evelyn is giving him directions!!!! In all fairness, it isn't easy to turn one of these beasts around when you get off on a wrong road. Clive has driven us over 120,000 km's on some roads that you wouldn't want to drive a donkey cart!!!!! He's amazing!!!

This is Chico. He's a very amazing member of our team. As you can see, he gives new meaning to the words "Just hanging around". Chico has travelled with us ever since he was five months old. He is quite the experienced RV'r. He goes for walks on his leash and will back down any dog that questions his right to be "out there". He is a great companion while we are driving down the road, as when he is not in his "captain's chair", he is right up front on the dash, making sure that "DAD" is going in the right direction.

And lastly, this is Evelyn. Chief cook and bottle washer. Oh yeah, and major great navigator!!! It's my job to keep the crew fed and in clean clothes, and on the right road. As mentioned before, making wrong turns is NOT an acceptable thing!!! You won't see too many photos of me on this journey, as I am also the only member of the team who can take photos and still have everyone keep their heads!

I hope you enjoy joining us on our travels this year as we explore new areas of the US. Think of us as "Star Trek Voyagers" out to explore land where we have never been before!! Armed only with our adventurous spirits, our trusty TOM TOM and Microsoft's Streets and Trips, we will wend our way through foreign lands!!!

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Gold Canyon 2008

We really enjoy Gold Canyon, Arizona. The weather is beautiful most of the time, and the views are spectacular. We stay at Gold Canyon RV and Golf Resort which is nestled almost at the foot of the Superstition Mountains, east of Phoenix, AZ. The resort is beautiful and clean, and most importantly, has a really nice little 9 hole golf course that challenges Clive's golfing abilities. This year he managed to get in almost 100 games in less than three months!!!!

Besides his golfing and my quilting, we also enjoy hiking in the desert and mountains around the area. Our first hike this year was up to the petroglyphs with Art and Gloria (even though incorrectly, the trail is called the Hieroglyphics Trail). It is so beautiful and peaceful up there, that the hike over the terrible trail conditions is really worth it. It must be, as we have hiked that trail at least three times now. This year, after the rain in January, we were pleased to see the creek full and flowing, filling the pools.

The view from the gathering
place is really quite spectacular.

You don't realize just how high you are climbing as you do the hike!!!



In March, we did some more hiking, enjoying the desert as it blossomed with gorgeous spring flowers!!! This year was a spectacular year because of the rain in January and February and the warmth of March. A great combination that makes for a marvelous show in spring.



We climbed to the Upper Cave Dwellings in the Tonto National Monument with Harold and Joyce. The flowers were abundant and the hike was well worth the effort when we got to the top and saw the dwellings. Time and tourists haven't been kind to the ruins, but they are still spectacular, and give you a good idea of the hardships endured by the Hohokum Indians during their tenure there.

The next hike was up to the Wind Caves on Usury Mountain which we did again with our hiking buddies, Harold and Joyce. Again, the mountain was covered in blooms. I took picture after picture after picture. Clive insisted that I took pictures of every flower on the mountain!!!! They are just so beautiful! We shared our climb with 140 fifth graders and their escorts!!! Do you have any idea of how much noise 140 fifth graders can make while climbing single file up a mountain trail??? Believe me, you don't want to know!!! I wish I had half of their energy, though!!!

This is one of those hikes that after you come down from it for the first time, you look back at where you have been and say "If I had known THAT was where we were going, I would NEVER have done it!!!!!!" The flowers are so beautiful, though, that you just keep climbing....looking from one batch to the next, with each one being more beautiful than the last!!!














Our last hike this year was up to Jack's Fan. This hike took us to view a very unusual cactus. It has a growth on the side that resembles a fan. Apparently this happens in about one in 10,000.