Trip to Arizona

Last week we decided to go to Arizona and look at different things that we heard and read about but have never actually seen. So we drove through the hot desert of Southern California. We stopped at windy Cabazon and saw giant windmills. We went through Phoenix and Tucson. Phoenix is just a huge metropolis: noting exciting about it.

Between Phoenix and Tucson there is a little known town of Coolidge where one can see Casa Grande ruins: an old remnants of American Indian dwellings.

Casa Grande ruins (Coolidge, Arizona)

Casa Grande ruins are not very famous but it's a nicely maintained park, very small. They have a history museum there and a little park that surrounds the area. Shade is a big issue in these parts of Arizona. 

The funny thing is that there is a town called Casa Grande, presumably named after the ruins. It's very pretentious and obviously blooming and growing, but the actual ruins are in Coolidge, which is a small town with absolutely nothing interesting besides these ruins. There is nothing much left but two old sites of the ancient dwellings, one of them is just a foundation.