Cathedral Rock Doesn't Like Harvey:-(

First of all, I had a message about the lack of Super Grover yesterday. Have no fear he is OK. He and Harvey had some male bonding time.  He did come out for some fun today so you will see him .  

So today we set out for Cathedral Rock after breakfast.  Our plan was to hike up it.  After navigating Harvey down some seriously narrow, windy road we found that they don't have any RV parking spaces for Harvey:-(. I could only get out and take a couple of pictures from the base. 

So we Plan B'd it and headed for Jerome; an old mining / ghost town.  We were told the population: strange. Lol. It's actually 400.  When Duchess heard where we were heading she sent the following picture with this message: "Hi momma,  just got my first hitch hike.  I'll b there soon.  Hope u have poopbags!"

So our first stop was at the old mansion/ museum. It was interesting to see all the old mining equipment and see the town where they put a J for Jerome in the mountain.  Super Grover even took a ride in the mucker

And we found a job fit for Clare!  (See the right side of below pic).  Her extensive work emptying Harvey's tanks have prepared her well for this. 

They also have the carriage used in Oklahoma!

We watched a film about the town which we swear was narrated by Rosco P Coltrain.  Then took silly pictures and went off to ask about RV parking in town.

 The museum guide said go up Hull Ave and then I'd have to take a sharp turn onto Jerome street and she wasn't sure the RV would be able to make it then another potential unturnable turn onto Main. Again, because I drive Harvey like a Schwinn ten speed, we made it.  Our first stop in the ghost town had to be the Spirit House. 

Oh, and for Ann and Jean, you'll note Hull Street was home to the brothel of course:-)

After drinks we walked through town a bit.  Amazingly Amy was able to pass the ice cream shop without getting a cone (because she doesn't know the last time she had chocolate ice cream). 

These are the stairs that, if you sit on the first three steps you can pretty much do anything (drink, smoke pot, hire a hooker); but go to the fourth step and you can be arrested.  I feel this must make for some pretty outrageous antics. 

We also tried throwing pennies into stuff. 

After we headed to the mine town.  

Turns out this ghost town is more like a graveyard for old cars.  But we did meet the guy from deliverance (or as we know him...in breeeeeeders...). He was nice though and cranked up his old Studebaker for us.  He actually built it himself and showed us pictures of the wagon bottom he started from.  

Clare, of course, immediately found the bar. 

These are probably the closest to scary things we saw:

This was the old school room

Clare took a ride

And Grover saved the day

Beyond that, Grover was put in jail, chickens were running free, and Pedro Gonzales was there (Amy made fast friends with him).  

So we made our way back to Rancho Sedona.  When we parked we had to put the levels under the tires so Harvey's not tilted.  It was determined we needed to put them under the front tires and I needed to pull Harvey forward onto them. Clare put the level under the passenger tire and Amy put it under the drivers side.  Can you tell who doesn't drive?

Drivers side

Passenger side

Forgot the quote of the day.  We asked the old guy from deliverance if we could go into the scary looking house. He said it wasn't safe and 'that house would have fallen years ago if the termites would stop holding hands'.