Quality Inn East Lucky Lane Flagstaff

It causes almost physical pain to see stupid retail shops built so near these breathtaking cliffs. It's criminal. It just shouldn't be. Arizona caved on this one--this should be a national park, not the purview of the wealthy.<br>Visit this eye-popping place and you can see how, were it not for national park status, the Grand Canyon could be another Sedona with trinket shops lining canyon walls. <br>We parked the car in a multi ...

... the free shuttle bus<br>along Hermit's rest route west along the south rim of the canyon. The<br>first stop gave us our first view of the canyon, it didn't look real,<br>more like a picture in front of us. Was a pretty amazing sight, the<br>blog will not do it justice, we'll try to get pics up one of these<br>days! We carried on along the route stopping now and then to get<br>different views and after a few we saw the Colorado River 1 mile<br>beneath us in the canyon. <br>Got ...

Sedona takes itself very seriously. Try http://www.visitsedona.com/ to see why. It's beautiful, rare and rich. But if you look, you can find a corner that looks nothing like the rest of Arizona and feels nothing like the rest of Sedona--a corner so WET, you'd never guess it was only inches from the desert.<br>

... like us they wouldn't be dependent in any way on that tourism. With my brain on a moral spin-cycle, I went about the business of sightseeing but maintained a manner and demeanour of maxiumum respect peppered with a sliver of shame. On a more childish note, one of the (particularly rotund) Indians in the visitor centre had the fattest 'back of the neck' I'd ever witnessed - not great for the cholesterol but on the plus side, probably quite useful for getting ...

... by looking through the viewfinder and moving her body a step or two forward or back. With her vertigo, and both of us being light-headed, I thought some safety procedures were in order. (See pic "Saving Miss Sandy"). Seriously, the longer we were at the edge, the more nervous I got, and I finally got to the point of near-panic. I turned, grabbed Sandy, and said "Let's go to the gift shop....Now". By the time we got there, I was very shaky ...

... took me to the other end of Mexico city. Then some lovely lovely woman took pity on me and got her husband to drive me to the airport with her and her two children practicing their English the whole way. The flight was fine but I missed the bus from Phoenix to Flagstaff- despite being sat right by the door at the time it left, don't ask me how, I think I was immersed in my book. I arrived in Flagstaff and found my hostel but not the key they promised to leave ...

... one going on while I was in Barcelona and I didn't even go. I used to seek these out to look for wood-carving customers, Paris Frankfurt London, all of them. Music festivals are more fun. So it's time to rewind the tape and re-trace my steps. That contradicts my rule number one- 'backpack, don't backtrack', but it really doesn't matter when you're flying. Every thing looks pretty similar from thirty-five thousand feet. Airports are certainly ...

Well, we made it to Flagstaff to Silas' dad's house last night after a long (but very scenic) drive from Telluride. Actually, it wasn't really that long but I think the fact that we left Telluride a little later than we had been planning, and that it seemed to get dark sooner than we were expecting made it seem like it was a long drive. On Monday night we stayed at a campground right in Telluride which was nice because we were able to ...

... Only dam personnel are allowed to enter the structure and on the way, all cars are stopped for "inspection". Joshua Tree Forest Luckily we were allowed to pass and soon entered Arizona. The landscape is a wasteland with just a few bushes here and there. But then suddenly we enter the oldest forest in the US, the Joshua tree forest. The trees here live up to 1500 years and haven't changed since the age of ...

... He was intently staring at something just below the canyon rim as he was throwing. As we got close to him, we looked down to see what he was watching. It turned out to be a fully-grown Bighorn ram. The ram was on a ledge about 20 feet below the rim. Despite the boy&#8217;s stone throwing, the ram seemed disinterested. We admonished the boy for throwing stones at a potentially dangerous animal. Immediately sensing that we were uncool, he began walking toward the ...