Show Low, AZ in the White Mountains

After we left tucson we drove up into the White Mountains to visit our friends the Sieglers in Show Low.   We thoroughly enjoyed our visit, and while we were there, we:
1.  Took an easy hike on the Rim Trail
2.  Checked travel brochures and Roselee, Jack, and I toured the Casa Malpais, said to be the premier archaeological site in the White Mts.  The pueblo is in ruins, but you can see a great kiva, pictographs, and an astronomical observatory which signaled when to plant or harvest crops.   Thankfully the guide provided walking sticks--the climb was a bit more rugged than the brochure showed.
3.  On Friday Jack and I drove to historic Fort Apache.   The Fort was established in 1870 to assist the Apache people to remain peacefully on their lands and stem the conflicts among native people and incoming settlers to the region.  The military left in 1922 and the buildings became the Teddy Roosevelt Indian Boarding School.   The museum on site was very well done and informative.
We also drove a few miles to the Kinishba pueblo ruins of a village of the ancestors of the Zuni and Hopi tribes.  There are indications people were living there as early as 800 AD.
On Saturday we said our goodbyes to Ro and Frank and on Sunday headed to the KOA in Holbrook, AZ which was a good location for continued exploration.