Kokopelli Suites Sedona

... garage behind some businesses on Highway 89A, the main drag. The view from the garage, the GARAGE, was gorgeous. You can't get a bad view in this town.
It makes me hurt to see houses built on scarlet cliff ledges, restaurants on the banks of Oak Creek, fast food junksters below wind swept rock pillars.
You can't duplicate this setting. There's only one.
It should've been a national park. No place on earth deserves it more.

Where do you go when the only safe place is UP? And there are 35 of you.
If you're in prehistoric Arizona you build what we flatlanders call a cliff dwelling.
Montezuma Castle (definitely not what they called it, as Montezuma died a century AFTER this had been abandoned) hugs the cliffs 100 feet above Beaver Creek.
Bob's sister Nancy is visiting from Florida so we took her on a road trip here, then on to Sedona. It was a great day full of interesting discoveries.

... did this. It was so much fun and lots better than the Pink Jeep Broken Arrow tour I went on last year. And the scenery was great. Well, we aren’t that far from Roswell are we. And Lynn did point out a house where a man lived who thought that there was a portal to another dimension around Sedona. I don’t think he has found it yet. All in all a really great day.

I think I need to rest tomorrow. Till then.

... pointed out that night was Saturn. Oh my god Saturn! I almost wet myself with excitement. Ever since I was a small child Saturn was my favourite planet. In fact at four the first job I ever wanted was to be an astronaut.

Before we got to the main telescope there was a smaller, portable telescope set up that was trained on a galaxy. It was just a fuzzy line, but hey, I have seen a galaxy with my own eye. We were just in time to see that as the full moon was rising ...

Alright, so I actually lied about that whole Grand Canyon thing.... we're gonna head there tomorrow because we spent so much dang time in Sedona today..... but it's just so darn pretty! You can't really help it.... the pictures will speak for themselves. Anywho, today we had the best breakfast yet! (yes, I'm still talking about food.... those who know me should know I'm a closet fatty by now)..... We had french toast ...

... the desert. I loved that it wasn't completely barron and that although it was desolate there was loads going on with wildlife and fauna that had made amazing adaptations to be able to survive there. Just before six in the morning we pulled into Flagstaff staion. The building looked like  anything you would see in England, a brick, beam, gable affair. As I got off the train the sun was just coming up and it was perishingly cold. I wondered if this was just a shock after being in warmer ...

... we visited visability was 58 miles - which apparently was quite good. In addition to this, the National Park employs a team of staff to collect from the ground tons of balloons - including weather and party ballons that have become trapped in the Canyon after being forced there by winds. Although the Canyon is a natural beauty, I find it to be a huge contradiction as it acts like a vaccum for pollutants. Wishing you all the very best. With love Ali xoxoxoxox

... Beyond catching up on life on the patio we took a Jeep Tour and had planned a Hot Air Ballon ride in the morning but lost out on it due to high winds and rain. But overall its a beautiful place with a lot of things to do and see!

... there is this white "floater" in the air off to the side of John. Could this be my vortex? T hen some more hiking and absorbing the beauty of Sedona.The colors still amaze me. Check in at the Roost, a 2 bedroom/2 bath casita we rented for $130 a night. Nice, cozy and perfect. Run out to stock up on some groceries and make dinner. Then head to the Oak Creek Brewery. Stop for a photo of the famous Red Rock church at night. Tomorrow is a hiking day.

... colorful when compared to everything around it: red cliffs; red boulders; a vegetation-less, red court. Even when my brother didn't have days off, we had fun. His job required him to hike down into the Grand Canyon, and I joined him. I liked the views inside the canyon better than those from the top. From the Grand Canyon's South Rim, we made the long descent to canyon depths. Mile-high, multi-rock-colored walls then impounded us at every direction. We hiked on, through ...