Road to ruins, the real beginning.
Flagstaff was cold when we got off the train at 7 in the morning.
I crossed route 66 and took a walk around what seemed to be most of the old town searching for coffee and breakfast.
Turned out to be just a block from the station, not a great station like L.A. but still better than Seattle.
When Budget opened we checked out the car and got on the road.
Headed south toward Sedona scoping out the red rock formations, an old fort and the first of the ruins, at Tuzigoot national monument.
Where I bought a hat.
Useful for sun protection.
Effective too.
No sun on my face.
Heading back to Flagstaff, we went through Sedona again only to encounter a massive traffic jam. apparently the place is some kind of major tourist destination.
Didn't look like much in the morning.
Anyway, back in Flaggers we checked into a room (only to find Gideon's Bible) then went to a local pub for dinner.
Last night I added a new feature, a link to even more of my turgid and mediocre music.
The Facebook site.
Not much on it as of 9:44 AM Friday May 23, but that'll change.
Tomorrow, a new Page.
Labels: Tuzigoot
posted by Lane Savant at 9:03 AM
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After the pub we went to the Lowell observatory to look at the canals on mars.
They were out on a date with the planet Pluto or something, so we didn't get to see them .
There was one telescope fired up and we got a chance to look through it.
The little white specks in the sky, when seen through a telescope look amazingly enough like little white specks.
Nice hat, dude--kind of looks like the headgear that a geologist or anthropologist would wear before scouring the red rocks of Sedona. Traffic jams are a way of life there spring through summer. Did you get to Walnut canyon near Flagstaff? Great ruins, man. Sedona is a mecca for metaphysical types, or so they say. The long canyon that drops down into it south of Flagstaff was pretty and congested. There is a museum in Sedona that shares the 200+ movies that have been made in the area; quite similiar to those museums in the Monument Valley and other red spots in the southwest. Tuzigoot National Monument does look intriguing. We missed that one on our swing through last summer. Was the rental car the infamous Chevvy Cobalt?
Glenn
Walnut Canyon is where we encountered the snow. The trail into the canyon was blocked by a rockslide, but we got to look over the edge at some of the ruins.
And toss snowballs at each other.
Hallo, Lane!
The LL would agree with Glenn: nice hat. She has been trying to get me to get one like it, so I won't look like a "floppy hat", the German name for the government police, "Schlapp-hut".
Tschuess,
Anonomann
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