Arizona Day 3

We had breakfast in Williams, but we didn't check out of the hotel until we had finished it, can you guess the reason why? My mother in law, and wife like to us clean washrooms, so they kept their rooms until the last minute. The first day in the rental car, everyone was talking about how comfortable it was but after getting in and out on the second day and now on the third day the grumbling is coming out. It's too low, I don't have enough leg room, I chuckle to my self because even though we are all adults we are also a bunch of children when it comes to our comfort.

We were off to Sedona, a tourist town located deep within a Valley off the main highway on our trip back to |Mesa from Williams. The car smelled like poop after we checked out of the hotel and everyone had used the bathrooms, I didn't say anything but I did roll my window down much to the despair of everyone inside because it was cold outside. I used the excuse that I was hot as I was the only one that smelled it.

If you have ever been to the mountains in B.C. you know some of those mountain roads are pretty steep, this was the case for the road going to Sedona. Long winding steep switchbacks with red rock canyon walls to each side. It was very impressive in my opinion. When we finally got to the town it was like the town of Jasper in Alberta, but probably twice as large. Tourist shops lined both sides of the streets. We stopped and had a walk around to look at them, and very much like home the prices for any item was exuberant, 200 American dollars for a rock that held a tiny cactus and could sit on a counter. Oh Nay Nay.

The view, however, was spectacular. It was so much better than the Grand canyon in my opinion and it was probably because the sights were much closer and you could see a lot more details in the surrounding mountains. We stopped at a place that used to be a trading post, built with rock that was rounded and smoothed over.

Neat stuff, but it had all the rooms converted to shops with high prices as well, so that kind of ruined some of the appeal for me. We found a market on the outside of town with some fascinating stuff that you didn't see in the town. Here is a pic.

We made it back to Mesa after a quick lunch. A hilarious argument between my in-laws broke out, it was about which roads to turn at, and I'm sure my wife's father was baiting his wife and trying to get her flustered, his plan worked too well in the end and it turned into a full fledged battle of hilarity.

Tomorrow we visit a huge flea market that my wife is stoked for. I guess we will see what happens.

Scott Goerz