The road-trip series revisiting Colorado City and Hildale.
This may not look like much, but the story behind it is kinda funny. Known as a hard worker, B started working with her uncle in a restaurant in Hurricane, Arizona when she was only twelve years old. That gave her the experience to eventually help open a Chester Fried Chicken at the Crick when…
This is where B. went to school. Still barred by fences at the time of our trip, students hadn’t walked the halls since it was closed over a decade before. It was a public school, but somehow the leaders were able to change much of the curriculum to reflect and support the beliefs of the…
Unfinished, OSB-sided houses( a cheap, pressed board), litter the land of Colorado City. This was a common sight as we drove around. At some point in time families started to build these huge homes and for some reason never finished them. This is an example of an inhabited, finished home. Notice the two doors that…
On our trip to Colorado City we stopped to take pictures of the unusual landscape. This mushroom rock is over three times my height. I felt like I was on a whole different planet. Just to my left, almost outside of the picture, was a quaint roadside market. A beautiful Native American lady was selling…
Arizona never ceases to amaze me. Just when I think I’ve seen all of its beauty, I see something in a new way. On our way to Colorado City, we stopped to take it all in. It’s not hard to understand why the FLDS chose to relocate in this area so many years ago.