Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Dec 26-Road to Sedona, AZ





This is the road into Sedona, Arizona. We took a picture of this because it appeared to curve very much through the mountains. If you can go to Google maps and look for Sedona, AZ then follow route 89A out of Sedona to the north. You will a pretty straight road for the most part until you get to the spaghetti turns. It was fun driving them.



First we went to visitor center and spoke to a volunteer named Doug who was extremely helpful. He told us about the following places:

1- The Chapel of the Holy Cross

2- Sedona Airport - funny idea but the view was amazing. The airport sits approximately 500 feet above the city so the views are amazing.


3- Red Rock Loop - beautiful


This, ladies and gentelmen, is a house. It is currently for sale. This pic was taken from a view while standing outside the chapel. If you notice the dome on this house you may notice that it is an observatory. We have no idea how much they were asking but since my mother is a Realtor, I thought that she would get a kick out of it. If anyone finds out how much they want for this and posts it in our comments section I will add it here. Just in case you want to look it up it is in Sedona Arizona and is almost right next to the Chapel of the Holy Cross Church.


Then we went to dinner at a place called Javelina Cantina - good food - fish tacos and blackened scallops salad.

That night we heard some very interesting sounds coming from the next room. The next morning when we got up and saw the couple from the next room we were amazed, they were both about 60 years old. LOL!!

Dec 26-Meteor Crater

Five hundred fifty feet deep, 4,000 feet across and you have an idea of how big this thing is.
A huge hole in the ground. Watch the video. If the video takes too long then check out the pics below.






It is so immense.


Emi trying not to fall in.


Boiler Plate #29 - used on December 10th, 1965 to simulate the flotation capabilities of a space craft.

Dec 26-Petrified National Forest


Entre Nous...amazing place and story about how all of this wood became petrified.


The painted desert. Believe me, it is truly beautiful in person.


A petrified log on it's side. If you click on it you can see where things crystallized.


Agate bridge - a natural agate bridge that has since had human supports put under it.


Indian petroglyphs - petro meaning rock and glyph meaning drawing.


Odd Note: There was a crazy family (sounded to me like they were from Pakistan or India - at least how I hear them) and they were driving two cars and decided to pass us at very high speeds within the park grounds - they were very disrespectful of not only us, but of the park itself.