We started this morning off by going to Denny's for breakfast. Denny's was giving breakfast of their Grand Slam entree to customers for free. We had a short wait to get a table but then the wait for our food was longer but they kept our coffee cups filled. Afterwards we stopped at the grocery store to pick up some salads to take on a picnic today. When we returned to the campground I fried some chicken and along with the salads had a picnic ready to go.
We drove south toward Phoenix to Lake Pleasant. This was indeed a beautiful area. The lake was made for Arizona Canal Project for irrigation.
It is surrounded by hills covered with Saquaro and other cacti,no housing developements or cabins. There are several campgrounds with water and electric hook-ups and numerous picnicing areas. We stopped at the visitor's center.
After riding around we stopped at a picnic area overlooking the lake and ate lunch.
After lunch we noticed a trail leading off from the parking lot that we thought we along with Travis could handle. The trail went along the top of a hill and then descended to a bridge that crossed an area that the lake backed up into.
We decided that was far enough and turned around. There was evidence along the trail of burros being in this area but we didn't see any.
