Cave Creek, AZ

19 th Feb


Harold and Cheryl are taking us to the Town of Cave Creek this afternoon but more about that later. Friday morning is time for ball games in the subdivision where  Harold and Cheryl  live and this area is a Sports Haven for just about any sport you care to play. However, it would be fair to say Golf, Slow Pitch and Pickle ball are the main sports. Harold is playing at noon but 3 other players from Med Hat , whom I play with/or against at home,  are playing earlier so we went down to watch them. These guys are younger than Harold and I  ( if you can use the word younger when they are 60 years old) so they play in a different division. After Harold's game he had a quick shower and then off to visit the Town of  Cave Creek. Other friend , Bob and Karen joined us as they had never been to Cave Creek.


Cave Creek was an Old Western Town   location about an hour north of Phoenix and is still considered a "Town " but is grown fast as people are moving out of the Metropolis areas to the more peaceful lifestyle . However, Cave  Creek  has "those with money"  building beautiful large homes in and around the Town. Apparently the Ice Age left Cave Creek with small mountains of large Rocks surrounding the Town and those with " Wealth " have built mansions in these rocks. It is simply amazing how any construction company got the equipment into the Rocks to built these Mansions. I wish I could send pictures of theses houses built in the rocks in the small mountains because it is fabulous area.


After a tour of this area we went to the  "New " Town site and luckily there was a 4 day  Art show display in the Town Square area , with mostly  very beautiful but expensive Artwork,  which included Art, Jewelry, Wood Carving and the like. One booth was selling cookies for 5.00 each. Anyone care for a dozen home made cookies as they are going for 60.00 a dozen. Did I mention that is Town had wealth.  After spending and hour  browsing over the Venues of Artwork ( and buying nothing ) we moved to the Original old Western Town site and it has kept the  Old Western Motif  and it too has lots of stores for the tourist to spend money and the ladies did just that. It also kept the Original Bars and restaurants and of could the parking lot of the Bars have replaced the hitching rails with parking areas for the Bikers.
If you are in the Phoenix area , I suggest you spend a day touring the Town of Cave Creek. Once you see it you will definitely recommend it to others. Cheers