Wyndham 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.<br>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. <br>You can't duplicate this setting. There's only one. <br>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. <br>If you're in prehistoric Arizona you build what we flatlanders call a cliff dwelling. <br>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.<br>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.

... that<br>did didn't seem open on this particular Sunday! We finally found<br>seemingly the only church with an actual service 10 mins late. It was a<br>tiny building and walking in late didn't seem like a good idea so after<br>trying a couple more for a later service we headed back to the hostel,<br>will hopefully find one on wed!<br><br>Grand Canyon Day!!!<br>Left<br>hostel at 8ish, 2 hour drive via Tusayan visiter centre for a map.<br>Reached Grand Canyon Village and decided to ...

... catching up on some of our past years we set out for a tour of the area.<br><br>First we went to my cousin&#8217;s church St. Patrick in Scotsdale. Really pretty church. It has a very large congregation. And from the size of the complex, a wealthy one.<br><br>After a nice lunch at a local Mexican restaurant, we drove around looking at the sights. Downtown, the usual stuff ...

... going to have mine with the rest of the cheese sandwiches and Andrea was going to have hers with some German style bread. Regrettably my cooking set got badly dented and needed hammering out with a rock before we could use it. I was hungrier than I thought once we started eating and I enjoyed it immensely. <br><br>Not sure what time the temperature got down to that night, but we both ended up having to put on extra clothes and socks. Andrea put on woolen socks with ...

... they had a crowd of American kids around them all playing a strange game which is was a mixture of piggy in the middle and American football. They loved it; they were all screaming and shouting. It's lovely to see our kids are not at all shy about mixing, and Ioan, in particular, is not shy about taking charge! We also spent a couple of hours by the pool today. We had the whole pool to ourselves for an hour or two; what do they say about mad dogs and ...

... un camping à Camp Verde ou l´on passera la prochaine semaine. Nous aurons enfin un terrain ou il nous sera possible d´utiliser notre antenne satellite pour écouter nos émissions du quebec et en prime internet sans fil sur le terrain, ce sera super Voici le lien pour les photos du grand canyon, amusez vous, ecrivez nous http://picasaweb.google.fr/clauderobert 47/GrandCanyon

... to see him after only four weeks. Joining us for the day was an old roommate of Glenn's, Doug and his son Cooper. Cooper is 10 years old and he and Justin buddied-up immediately. We hiked our way to the climb site, clear blue sky and 70F. We felt the energy from the vortex at Cathedral rock, and it played havoc with my digital camera battery (not kidding this stuff is real). Glenn got us geared-up and after a safety ...

... Not overly exciting. It was fun though being out on the road, listening to our iPod and cruising along, just like in the movies! We had a stop for lunch at a rest area, but didn't venture out of the car as it was boiling hot. We reached Flagstaff at 5pm after a long drive and decided to wait till tomorrow to check out the Grand Canyon. Probably best as we were both a little tired.

The stay in Price continued. Our last night was midsummers eve and we figured we should celebrate it somehow. It was hard to get into the real 'sill och snaps' mode, but we had beer, a huge desert and some fireworks to play with. Not the usual way of doing it but it was a fine moment sending those pyrodevices up in the air to explode in colors over the empty landscape. Finding couchsurfers is not always the ...