From the Mountains to the Valley

It's Monday morning and sadly, time to head home.  Although the weather turned south quickly with heavy rains overnight and much colder temps... in the low 40s.   One more hearty breakfast before we head out 

Fortunately, the ground absorbed most of the new rain and we had no trouble getting out of the property. 

We headed for a quick detour to check out the town of Young with some very cool old, old buidings. 

And then back the way we came, now north thru Tonto National Forest.

Where is was now snowing as the temps dropped into the low 30s.

Left back to Payson.

With the temps now down to 23F Yikes.

After a pit and fuel stop in Payson, we're on AZ-87 south to Phoenix.  Warmer temps and distinctly different vegetation.

After some online research, we decided to stop in Tempe for lunch.

My chicken enchilada was delicious.

Since SFO777jr-LAX had a 4pm Souithwest flight to BUR, we dropped him off at Terminal 4, then wandered around trying to find a gas station to top up the tank and finally back to the Rental Car Center, and the shuttle back to Terminal 4.