We checked out the highlight of Grove, Oklahoma -- Har-Ber Village, created by Harvey and Bernice Jones of Jones Trucking to show what life has been like over the generations. There are buildings and buildings and buildings full of everything from the past: clothes, dishes, farming equipment, pots and pans, chairs and other furniture, quilts, kitchen gadgets, blah blah blah. It's a beautiful spot on the lake with some interesting stuff from the past 100 of so years -- some of it we even remember from Grandma's.

We've got a great patio area off our condo, so we've started feeding the birds in the mornings (hey, there's not much else in Oklahoma!). In addition to the usual sparrows and grackles, we've attracted cardinals, bluejays, robins and two kinds of woodpeckers.

We toured the Pensacola Dam, built by the local power company to create Great Lake O' Cherokee and supply a good part of the state with power. This is one of the few multiple arch dams in the country and one of the longest.

The original 1930's turbine, just replaced in 2006.

Traveling another 1200 or so miles from Arizona to Oklahoma, we drove along the edges of the Painted Desert in Arizona.

This is going through New Mexico.

Sunrise over Amarillo, Texas.

Welcome to Oklahoma.

Lunch at Island Joe's on the Grand Lake O' the Cherokees. The lake, with all it's coves and twists, has over 1300 miles of shoreline.

We took a drive along the Apache Trail, just east of Phoenix. The surrounding mountains are called "Little Grand Canyon." Only it's like driving at the bottom of Grand Canyon and then climbing halfway up.

It runs past Superstition Mountain, as well as the old town of Goldfield.

There are many one lane bridges along this road. Luckily, there was not too much traffic!

Canyon Lake is one of the three lakes formed by dams, thanks to the local power company. The Salt River (same one for tubing) provides the water.

A good portion of the drive is on an unpaved road, and portions of it only allow one vehicle to pass, with mountains rising on one side and canyons dropping on the other. Bill loved driving this, but Denise's knuckles were white and foot was tired of "braking" on the passenger side!

Imagine tubing along these waterways. This was similar to some of the scenery of our tubing along Salt River (somewhat smaller mountains, but they look pretty grand when you're down in the river).

The dam Roosevelt Lake is probably the largest and visible from the road.













Back on paved roads, but the twists and turns and climbs and drops continue.