I don't know that you could really call it a road trip.
It was more like an afternoon drive.
Which brought to mind golf terms and it would be a short putt compared to a tee-off drive.
At any rate, it was refreshing to get out of the house for an hour or two and see some scenery.
If you click on that photo and enlarge it, you may be able to see the San Francisco Peaks up around Flagstaff in the distance between those two trees on the left.
Or you may not.
We could see them pretty clearly with the naked eye but my "smart" phone camera doesn't really do a good job on long distance.
This was taken from the Thumb Butte area just west of Prescott.
Thumb Butte is the iconic rock formation that is sort of a logo for Prescott.
It doesn't look much like a thumb from this vantage point but from other areas it does.
You'll just have to take my word for it.
This is very near the trailhead for the Thumb Butte Trail.
There are a plethora of trails winding through the forest up here and we saw lots of hikers wending their way through the trees and in some cases over patches of snow.
And many of them were in shirt sleeves on this sunny day when the temperature had topped 60 back where I live but must have been in the 50's up here.
In my advanced and Arizona-softened years, that's a mite bit chilly for bare arms for me.
We wound up our outing with a visit to Dairy Queen for Heath Bar Blizzards.
Judy said it sounded like our grandparents back in the day - a Sunday (though this was Monday) drive followed by a stop for some ice cream.
Oh well, we are grandparents now and in fact, great-grandparents.
I used to hate those Sunday drives when I was a kid.
But times change.
