After a quick breakfast of oatmeal and coffee - tea for Diane - we walked around a bit until it was time to check in at Pink Jeep Tours, where we signed up for the "Broken Arrow" ultimate four-wheel adventure. Believe me, it lived up to its name, which is inspired by the movie, Broken Arrow, with James Stewart and Jeff Chandler (for those old enough to remember those two).
We both highly recommend Pink Jeep Tours for anyone coming to Sedona. Our guide, Tim Munson, has years of experience as a guide in Grand Canyon and Sedona, and we, along with two other couples and a guy named Dave from Wales, benefited from his vast knowledge of geology, plant life, the history of the area and even movie trivia. He made the trip well worth while.
As with the Grand Canyon, photographs cannot do the place justice. After the tour we had lunch at a Mexican restaurant (highly recommended by one of the couples in our Jeep) and it turned out to be very underwhelming. It was bad.
Then we went on our own little tour to a couple locations Tim told use about, one a Catholic church designed inspired by windows in the Empire State Building shortly after it was built in 1931. The woman who was thus inspired wanted to build a remarkable church in Europe, but was stopped by World War II. In the 1950s, she lived in Sedona and after much political fighting was able to get it built here.
As I said before, after Sedona we're going to be winging it. We made up our minds this afternoon where we're going next - Las Vegas (just overnight) then Bishop for a couple days. We're taking some back roads and visiting a ghost town along the way. So, keep coming back, we'll have plenty of pictures to share.
This is what we woke up to, looking from our patio.
One of the hundreds of sculpture around town.
From a distance, we thought it was a real girl.
Where the adventure begins.
Waiting for our ride on Pink Jeap Tours.
Our group during the 2 1/2- hour tour.
Somehow we ended up matching the Jeep and each other.
No ordinary Jeep could make it along these trails.
We got plenty of opportunities to get out and take in the sights.
We had never seen the color green of these trees (which
doesn't really show up in the photograph). They were
tuorquoise green from all the moisture the state has had.
Pink Jeep roundup.
Hanging in there.
Red rocks everywhere.
It was steeper than it looks.
We all took a turn at the steep grade.
Fantastic!
Chapel of the Holy Cross.
The "Two Nuns" near the Chapel of the Holy Cross.
Awesome.
Sunset in Sedona.
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