ArizonaRealCountry.com 21 September 2017 602.524.7338 For Turn Key Priefert Walkers, Contact Digger: rocksolidframes@aol.com • WWW.ROCKSOLIDFRAMES.COM long, winding grade into Prescott. We pass though a covered wooded bridge and are on Granite St.. We turn right onto Walker St. which curves slightly left and takes us onto Montezuma St and famed “Whiskey Row” and the Courthouse Plaza. It has been a long, hot, rough and dusty day-long adventure from Phoenix to Prescott. We are tired and hungry. On Cortez St. we find the Head Hotel next to the post office and check in. After cleaning up, we dine at the New Hoffman Grill across the street from the hotel. It’s been a steady climb all the way. Next morning we face another day-long adventure. We have the Cruthfield Brothers Overland Garage next door service our touring car while we breakfast at the New Hoffman. Finally, Ashfork Ten more miles has us at another fork in the road and we bear right. Within a tenth of a mile, the road ends and we turn right into Ashfork. We find a store on the right, stop for some cookies and then head straight through town towards Williams. We are now 20 miles from Ashfork and 85 miles from Prescott. We have reached 6,750 feet and are in Williams, a town of 1,275 people. It’s been nearly four hours since we left Prescott. Less than a mile down the road, we take a right at a fork in the road and start the trip to the Canyon. After a long 27 mile stretch we reach Woodin Station that stands to our left. We bear right onto the main drive along the South Rim and to our left is the El Tovar Hotel, where we wired ahead for reservations. It is nearing sunset, a perfect time to view the Canyon. Two Days to the Canyon It’s been two long and exciting days over rutted roads from Phoenix. We plan to stay two days at the Canyon before returning to Phoenix, which, with luck, will only take two more days, making this a six day trip in all. Imagine, only six days. By horse and buggy just over a decade ago, or by stage, it would have taken eight days at least. Magnificent things, these modern touring cars that can average 25 miles an hour steadily all day long over rough desert and mountain roads, across washes and creeks, and up steep mountain grades. Truly, these are magnificent machines. Oh, the marvels of the 1920’s.