With a nod to Willie, we were up 15 minutes before the alarm and I actually had time for a quick trim before the taxi arrived to whisk us away to BOI. (There are advantages to not having a lot of hair…and to living with my barber.) We cleared security with just enough time to […]
Welcome to Day 0. This is the traditional “clean the bathrooms/clean the kitchen/vacuum/buy Kindle Books/set up the BLOG/order the taxi/close the suitcases (but not for the last time)” day. The taxi will be picking us up at 630 in the morning. Tomorrow’s destination is Norman OK by way of Seattle. Next Tuesday we grab the
We packed up, loaded up, grabbed some breakfast and hit the road. We stopped in Flagstaff long enough to swap one of the vans for a “turtle top” (airport shuttle van) – so that there would be the proper number of the right kinds of vehicles in the right places for next weeks tours –
Following breakfast we boarded our vans for the trip to Peach Springs Canyon. Leaving the Interstate we bumped our way down Route 66 enjoying the scenery and the Burma Shave signs along the way. We stopped in Seligman long enough to pick up our permits from the Hualapai Game and Fish office then bounced our
The day started out like any other. OK, not quite. We were up and in the vans by 5:45 (those of us who accepted the challenge to get up in the middle of the night) and off to Yavapai Point to watch the sunrise. Then it was back to the vans and back to the
We were told that the “lazy” part of our tour was over. Today begins the “active” part. So we checked out of our Sedona hotel and took off for the Grand Canyon. We headed toward Flagstaff up Oak Creek Canyon. The canyon follows a major fault line and we talked about the differences in geology
We may have mentioned that Sedona is a new age center for, well, new agey stuff. Here are a couple of pictures to illustrate. Just sayin’.
Our first destination this morning was Montezuma’s Castle, a cliff dwelling south of Sedona. Our guide/trail boss/general factotum, Gael and Paul, the driver of the other van, gave us an orientation to the site, discussing the culture of the builders, their farming methods, and theories of why they built structures such as these. Then it
Before we start, there’s a photo I forgot to include yesterday. From the Gift Shop at the Tuba City Trading Post: Now on to today. We start with a picture of our vans. This is because we have a reputation of going everywhere on massive tour busses, taking up too many parking spaces and disgorging
Today we left Kanab and headed for Sedona. There are a couple of ways to get there. We chose the one that took us past Glen Canyon Dam …and Lake Powell We stopped for lunch in Tuba City AZ. Tuba City is in the Navajo Nation so we were immediately confused about time (Even though