of the main rules for road trips: avoid at all
costs retracing your steps. But by the time we were
finished at the Grand Canyon we were finished ourselves.
We needed some down time. We needed to start planning
our route home. AND we needed to find a place to
do an oil change on the car (warranty requirement.)
So we drove back south to Flagstaff, an historical
mining town that seems to have an active business
section - lots of cool cafes, restaurants and bars to
cater to the university crowd.
We also saw more freight trains go through town than I've ever seen anywhere...the above shot believe it or not is a train of Fedex containers! Apparently traveling by Amtrack through the west is difficult and slow because all passenger trains must give way to the freight trains.
It's also a jumping off point for lots of great ski areas in northern Arizona and southern Utah and Colorado nearby.
On our first day there, Saturday, I broke down and bought my first pair of cowboy boots.
So guess what we did on our day off on Sunday?
I went shopping again and Blair watched football.
I further retraced my steps to Sedona...and visited an amazing church built into the rocks.
As I mentioned in an earlier posting, Sedona makes claims to some
great psychic vibes and vortices...and there are lots of businesses to
take advantage of that.
Back in Flagstaff I dragged Blair away from the tube for lunch. The city is on Route 66, and we took in The Galaxy - one of the great old diners we'd come to appreciate
earlier on in our trip.
By the end of the day, we'd decided toextend our trip by a few more days...we'd go up to Page and the famous Antelope Canyon ...we found a great apartment to rent in Chcago from the 16th to the 21st...so we should be home by Halloween.
Decisions made...we slept well and got on the road to Page, Arizon, the hub of the Navaho natural world.
Next post - Antelope Canyon - one of the most beautiful places int the world.
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