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8/8/2009
5:45 PM
Phoenix
Didn't spend much time here - just waiting for the plane. Spent most of the time at the Native American Museum - pretty incredible!
8/7/2009
5:38 PM
Wupatki
An amazing pueblo between the Sunset Crater Volcano and the Painted Desert. I wish we had made it further into the Painted Desert, like this, or this, or this. There's just so much driving you can do. Look for the lava rocks and the blowhole in the earth, where the earth breathes in and out depending on the atmos ...
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8/6/2009
5:31 PM
Tuzigoot & Montezuma
These are pueblo ruins. Montezuma's castle was misnamed by the Spanish explorers who thought it was Aztec. Incredible to learn how people out here managed to live! We met a Forest Ranger who explained how all the pueblos had been built by the women while the men were off hunting. There were room ...
8/4/2009
5:26 PM
Grand Canyon
We kept hoping we'd see a mountain lion here. We never did (except the stuffed one in the gift shop!), but we did see an whole herd of elk right by the side of the road, as well as many other small wonders in the midst of this great one.The first day, we hiked a lot of the rim trail. We came back a couple o ...
8/3/2009
5:34 PM
Downtown Sedona
A cool little town. It was going to be named Schnebly Station, after the two brothers who founded it, but the Post Office told them to be more concise, thankfully, so they named it after the wife of one of the brothers. Because of the vortexes (places that seem to have energy whirlpools and make the Juniper ...
8/2/2009
5:17 PM
Jerome
A beautiful little town built into the side of a mountain cliff. It was a mining town with all the amenities - cowboys, shootouts, brothels. There's still a bordello there today, though I think it functions more as a tourist bar now than a brothel. Now it's an artist colony with some amazing galleries. ...
8/1/2009
5:13 PM
Sedona Day Hikes
We did several of these. We spent the first day walking to some of the vortexes, including the one near Boynton Canyon, Bell Rock, and the Chapel of the Holy Cross, a beautiful chapel built right into the side of the mountain by a student of Frank Lloyd Wright.Then we opted for some longer hikes, including Devil' ...
Trip to Sedona, AZ, for our fifth anniversary.
