Trulock bros as football fans, Little Rock '65

Four Trulock brothers, in front of our grandmother's house in Little Rock. In order of ascending age: Arch, Greg, Steven, David.  You can see that I have an injured middle finger on my left hand.  It came from playing football!  Or trying to play.  During practice with the Forrest Park Rangers, when I was trying to catch a pass, a bone in my finger got chipped.  That was the extent of my school-related football activity.  I sat out the rest of the season, which was okay with me. I would not have gotten to play, anyway, except in the last game of the season "under the lights" at the high school field, when every team member got to play.  I don't recall if I really wanted to play in that game or not.  I think not!  Steven, who was also on the team like me for only one year, got to play under the lights, and made one spectacular tackle, stopping the guy with the ball who was about to make a touchdown.  My only claim to fame from that football season was the metal finger brace on my middle finger.  It really stood out when I had my left hand on the handlebar of my bicycle.  Kind of showed my opinion of the Forrest Park football program at the time.

Greg's third birthday, Arch as baby, 1963

Top photo: David, Lynne, Greg (blowing out candles), Jeff, Steven (empathizing with blowing out candles), and our grandmother, Francis Andrews Trulock.  Late November 1963.

Bottom photo: Arch, two months old, December 1963.

NM & AZ October 2003 Set # 6

NM & AZ October 2003 Set # 5

Above and below: posing on the edge of a not-so-grand canyon north of the Grand Canyon.

Mr. Peabody's coal train done hauled it away.

NM & AZ October 2003 Set #4

 On the road to Grand Canyon, after Flagstaff.

 Parking lot behind convenience store and gift shop, last stop before El Canyone Grande.

 Same rainbow as previous shot.  I bought a silver necklace for my niece Amanda for her 16th birthday at the gift shop where this rainbow showed up.

End of the rainbow, beginning of Grand Canyon.

This last shot was the first I took after we left the Grand Canyon.

Friday—breakfast precipitated an argument over his fixing of pancakes while I was in the shower after I’d already eaten a PBJ sandwich. Left campsite fairly late, drove highway 180.  Had a big, late breakfast around 1 p.m. after we got on the road, at the Crown Railroad Café in or near Flagstaff.  Biscuits, gravy, eggs, hashbrowns. Total for two meals $12.07. Janice was our waitress.  Huge model train set not working.  We drove on to Grand Canyon, bought some stuff at grocery store (just strawberries for me). Clouds in canyon started clearing when we got there.  Desert View campground dark, rainy, wet, wet, wet.  Lost our reserved campsite to interloper, but got a better one and had small dinner at our new campsite. Just chips, salsa, and beer for me.

NM & AZ October 2003 Set #3

After driving through the aforementioned small towns in Arizona, we made a stop in Sedona to get groceries. Extremely touristy. Camped near Sedona that night, then drove on to Flagstaff, where there's a small observatory at Northern Arizona University. This is a good time to give a summary of food eaten up to this point on the trip, since it also gives a travelogue of places:

Monday, first road meal—pancakes at  truck stop near Johnson City. Second “meal” was peanut butter & crackers and other stuff we’d brought with us at a windy-as-hell rest stop near Fort Stockton.  Next meal was at Crossroads Café in Hurley, NM.

Tuesday—breakfast of bacon & eggs at our Lower Scorpion Campsite. Lunch was apparently a snack, don’t recall what. Dinner was at the Cottonwoods campground, our own camp-made spaghetti. Plus maybe a salad, beer to drink for me, don’t know what JKW was drinkin’.

Wednesday—PBJ at campsite before leaving, then pancakes, etc, at Bear Wallow Café, Alpine, AZ.  Road food later—snacks, and fighting, around Payson.  Dinner was hamburgers and fries cooked at our Cave Springs campsite near Sedona.

Thursday—not much for breakfast since we packed up & moved to better campsite in same campground. Drove into Sedona, got food for dinner and $ at Basha’s.  Dinner was grilled tuna steak (me) and regular steak (JKW), mashed potatoes, and BBQ beans with onion slices on the side.

 Store employee taking break in Sedona.

Highway out of Sedona.

Remember that bear warning...?

Cave Springs campsite, the better one.

Heron near our Cave Springs campsite

Campfire with our chairs.

Northern Arizona University observatory.

NM & AZ October 2003 Set #2

Tuesday:  Gila Nat’l Forest, Apache Nat’l Forest (camped there). Wednesday: On into Arizona: Alpine, Eager, Macnary, Hon Dah, Show Low, Fools Hollow, Heber, Forest Lakes, Kohl’s Ranch, Payson, Strawberry. Left Highway 87, got on Nat’l Park Road #3 between Happy Jack and Flagstaff, near Mormon lake Village.  Camped at Cave Springs campground in Oak Springs Rec Area.

The photos below were taken with my Pentax K-1000, except for the one showing Wooley, aka, JKW, at Continental Divide sign. 

In order of appearance:  JKW relaxing at Lower Scorpion campsite in Gila National Forest; a Mogollon Cliff Dwelling; info about the cliff dwellings; info about bears; a sun-soaking lizard; going over the great divide in Gila Nat'l Forest;  going into Arizona; and a cow bone beside National Park Highway #3 (Lake Mary Highway) near Mormon Lake Village.