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good morning
uh the sun is right in our face right
now because uh
it's 7 48 and the sunrise here is
actually pretty early in arizona
we're in mesa arizona which is about 30
minutes
east of phoenix and we're on our way to
the apache trail
which is one of the most scenic drives
in arizona and it goes on for about
40 miles and the first 20 miles
are paved and the next 20 miles are
dirt roads so we're gonna do the paved
roads for sure
and the first stop is goldfield ghost
town
so this used to be an authentic gold
mine which no longer exists so they made
um you know like a tourist attraction
out of it
and there's a restaurant there and some
other attractions but yeah it's like a
west it looks like a western theme
um i'm sure that's how it was before
yeah but like they have a saloon there
and they kind of kept everything pretty
original i guess but of course
it's updated and we have the dogs with
us too so
all these uh places that we're going to
is dog friendly
uh we could take them to this gold field
or it's a goldfield yeah goldfield ghost
town um
not we can't go to any of the
attractions with the dogs but we could
explore the area
and then next we're gonna go to the lost
dutchman state park
that is dog friendly there's lots of
trails there so we're gonna check that
out
we made our rice balls and uh some
sandwiches
so we're hoping we could eat our lunch
at the next stop which is canyon lake
and it's dog friendly there as well and
they have some picnic tables there
from there we're gonna go to i believe
it was tortilla flat
and tortilla flat is a stop another
little western town
um where an old you know replica western
town
where they have some restaurants so it's
a good break for
uh food if you're hungry once you hit
the canyon lake area you're gonna be
in the tonto national forest so you'll
need a daily pass and you need this for
parking there and to just be in the i
guess yeah parking
is mainly what it's for so you can get
these daily passes that
a lot of retailers in um arizona
or i guess the mesa phoenix area all
right here it is
goldfield goes down
this is goldfield 1893.
they are ready to go and explore
so there's a nine tour you can do here a
goldfield mine tour
later in the day right now it's not open
that's the superstition mountains back
there
so they have several eateries here they
have the coffee cantina bakery
they have the grill up front and then
that's the mammoth saloon
looks like they got some horseback rides
and that's a tours we have a mine tour
they have a jeep tour
and a horseback ride that says restrooms
over here too
there's a gold field station here and
you can actually
take a little train around an actual
railroad
and go around this little little town
and it goes around in the loop
of course we can't do it because we've
got the doggies but it'd be fun with uh
family even if it was just me and candy
we would totally do it it's a little
train over there
okay so we just got done with goldfield
ghost town and it was really cool in
there it really seemed
it was probably like the best ghost town
with the western thing that we've been
to
and uh when we went nothing was open yet
which is perfect because we got to
explore with the dogs
and take some cool photos and so now
we're heading
to uh dutchman lost dutchman state park
which is just like right down the road
it's only like two minutes away
also at the ghost town nothing is open
until 10 a.m
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just parked this park at the troya
parking
lot we went through uh the gate
the lady up front where we played paid
her ten dollars and um she was so nice
yeah you know very helpful with
suggestions
yeah um but then she was like oh you
have two dogs like can they get treats
so they got treats how
i know and then she asked what
suggestions she had for like a good
trail for dogs and she suggested the
treasure loop trail because it's low in
elevation it's only 500 feet
and um so yeah we're packed with the
cholla parking lot that's where it
starts
but we're looking at the brochure and
there are some like other really short
trails that we could probably do like
the native plant trail
which is only 0.25 miles and the
discovery trail which is 0.7 miles
a nice picnic table there
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look at that beautiful sky that's the
superstition mountain
treasure loop trail number 56.
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here we go so here is the map
of the lunch lunch the lost dutchman
state park it even shows where we came
in
and then the ranger station we drove up
and we parked here christy is the
bathroom here now we're here starts here
and then goes around
maybe like that yeah i think that whole
thing is
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so we did a little bit of the treasure
loop trail and now we're gonna
head back and do a couple other trails
miss kuma
is not so good with trails especially
like rocky ones it's mostly dirt but
there's rocks that she has to climb over
sometimes and
she's got those tiny legs so she can't
handle it also just make sure
that the dogs stay on trail because zoe
got some spines
on her little booty oh my gosh i freaked
out because yeah
she sat down which i actually told her
to sit and then when she got up it was
like right on her butt and i had to pull
it out
luckily it wasn't really in her like
that
far in but but yeah luckily we got it
out so just be careful
because that happened to me at saguaro
national park kuma just kind of wandered
off
and she got spines and her paws i had to
like take it out and it was pretty hard
to take out that one with
zoe those luckily that's pretty easy to
take out this is a lovely park though to
take your dog on walks um because we've
seen so many dogs already on this trail
yeah
i mean every other person has a dog yeah
it's great yeah it's the most
it's like the most dogs i've ever seen
at a park yeah okay
so we were going to do more hikes at the
lost dutchman state park
but one of the trolls we wanted to do
was only for campers staying there
and then the other trail we couldn't
find so
we're just gonna move on with the apache
trail and continue on to canyon lake now
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right before you hit canyon lake uh
you'll see
canyon lake vista and you have a
beautiful view of this lake
they even have a nice shaded area for
you to look at
i feel like they used to have
information here but uh took it away
take some pictures here looks very
lovely
this canyon lake over here is man-made
and created
by this dam and there's four lakes
that produced from that and they say
that the canyon lake is the most
beautiful
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his legs probably gonna be cold
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look at the duckies
actually found this nice area at canyon
lake there's several
picnic tables actually a lot of picnic
tables uh some people fishing
now we're gonna eat our packed lunch and
enjoy the views
so we packed our favorite rice balls
uh so candy did her rice seasoning one
and i did
my traditional with seaweed
so if you want to learn how to make
these we did a video on it so check it
out
and i also made some sandwiches
and i cut it into little pieces because
i like little bite size pieces
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so we were going to have a nice lunch
out there by the lake but there's so
many beans
after setting everything up and like all
these bees was forming us
around us and we're like okay we can't
yeah we're like this isn't gonna work
so now we're gonna eat in the car and
then we'll take the dogs to the lake
afterwards but man that was crazy
disappointing
so just disappointing
you like that grandma come on you cool
oh no be careful
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i don't think so girl we've been having
a lot of problems here at canyon lake
it's
very beautiful but first of all there's
tons of bees so we tried to have lunch
at the picnic table but the bees were
there so that didn't work out
and then um we ate in the car wish that
worked out fine but then when we got out
preparing the dogs a bee came inside the
car so we had to get that out
and then kuma decides to rub herself in
horse poo
so we had to clean that up and then now
there's like glass we find on like visa
the shore here which socks like why do
people do that
but no no i think we're finally having
some good
dog time at the lake yeah i think all
that took like at least
40 minutes i'm a little bit tired
you can tell so can i just relax and
enjoy the view
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we're coming up on the one lane bridge
so you gotta stop
and let the other cars go through all
right
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wow
so now we are making our last stop on
the paved part of the road
uh which is tortilla flats
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i like this view now the view gets
more and more gorgeous the more you
drive down this apache trail
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what you doing what you doing right
there i'm coming for you
let's think about this town
they have a post office here
look at the toilet seat
that's another pretty face oh my
goodness
look at him oh my god
that's
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maybe they found the secret room
there's so much information in there i
know
it was established on this spot
september 23rd 1932.
yeah so 14 students attended
hey got the famous
prickly pear gelato
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does it taste like a look at watermelon
it tastes like bubblegum i see what they
say about the bubblegum
it has like that uh that original
bubblegum flavor a little bit
very light though you know it's not a
flavor i would
personally order myself but it's not bad
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um
music that goes with it
i do like the song yeah
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oh
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ready
i don't think she knows she can eat the
cone but there you go
you can eat it there you go yeah
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um
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i like this place i know it's fun
good music all right so we completed the
paved part of apache trail
it makes it pretty easy it's very easy
um
from here on out it's all dirt roads and
it gets even more windy
um so we're gonna head back i hope you
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