It was a beautiful, sunny day here in the Valley of the Sun and so we decided to take a road trip to a town we haven't been to before. Cave Creek and Carefree are right next to each other and really just at the northernmost tip of Phoenix, but still about an hour away. We happened upon a festival in each town. First up Cave Creek and their Frontier Town, yes another of those wild west kind of areas, goodness gracious there are enough of them out here. In "Frontier Town" there were lots of shops and pubs and then they had an arts/craft thing going on. Truly I do not have any idea who buys all that southwest style stuff.
Welcome to town!
A real outhouse......I don't think anyone still uses it
Lots of old farm/mining/frontier equipment with artwork animals pulling them.
OK so maybe Frontier Town was not that exciting. We kept on down the road and passed pub after pub after pub with thousands and I do mean thousands of Harleys in the parking lots. I am thinking we found where all the Sunday Harely riders go. Little more down the road and we come to the Carefree Arts and Chocolate Festival. Well turns out the chocolate is not what made that worth the stop. It was the Desert Cactus Kickers a self-described group of dancing grannies from Cave Creek, putting on quite the performance.
They were really fun to watch, I give them a lot of credit for getting up there and tapping their way around. On the way back home we stopped at Big Earls Greasy Eats for a burger, but I had chicken. I believe Big Earls was on one of those TV shows that travel around the country finding unique places to eat. Sandwich was good, but I wouldn't put it on TV not that anyone asked me.
So there you have it just another wild west town out here in the wild west.
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