random pics that YOU have taken.......

[daepp]

First things first - I donned my lucky Robert Earl Keen "The Road Goes On Forever" shirt, and we left LA for old mining town of Oatman, AZ.










The Oatman Hotel. Rather long in the teeth, and she's sure seen better days, but still a nice place to hang your hat, cool off and get a cold one. Her claim to fame today is that Clark Gable used to play cards here, and when he married Carol Lombard they spent their honeymoon night here (in order to avoid the paparazzi of the day).














One more burro to see as we headed out of Dodge (er Oatman). Route 66 to Kingman and then down to Sedona.

[daepp]

Southbound out of Flagstaff heading down into Oak Creek Canyon on our way to Sedona:






We booked two nights at a cool hotel, adjacent to Oak Creek. My only regret was not booking a couple more. This was an incredibly relaxing part of the journey.







Random cool house across the creek



FLWright eat your heart out. This house and those cantilevered decks were more impressive to me than Falling water!



And check out those steps. They have zero support under their outside edges - they must be doweled into the adjacent wall!



Even McD's got into the Sedona ethos:

[p911dad]

[Baz]

Found this this morning in the landscape bed beneath the palm where my resident Osprey perches and dines on the local seafood.......

[VincentVega]

Cool baz

There are a few on the creek, fish parts all over my yard. Interesting when the mower finds them.

[dheinz]

Another dove bites the dust...

[bugstrider]

Its official,
Had to order a sign to put at the top of our driveway. Tired of Uber and Lyft drivers driving down the driveway. As well as transient drivers trying to circumvent the backed up weekend traffic. I seriously want to ask “Do you see a double yellow line?????? Like the one on the road you turned off of?” After the deer in the headlight look and the excuse of “Google told me to turn here” I gave up.
Thanks GOOGLE MAPS...........

I don’t think it’s that hard to differentiate a main road from a driveway, but alas I am mistaken.

I did think about ordering a sign that said “You Damn Kids stay off the grass” but figured it would be too cliché. LoL

[bugstrider]

Hahahahahah
Pacific Gas & Extortion (PG&E) pays a contractor to go around locally and police the area surrounding the power poles. I pretty much do that on our pole between the house and the road. Round-up takes care of everything and helps reduce the fire danger too. The contractor shows up, gets out, fires up the weed eater and chews up dry dirt to two minutes then used the leaf blower to move the dust cloud. There was nothing to knock down but he did it anyway. I guess they have to justify the contract.





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[daepp]

Hiking in the red sandstone that is the Sedona landscape:

















I love California, and I think it's pretty nice here. But I gotta say, the beauty in northern AZ is turned up to 11!

[Skip Newsom]

^Thanks for the photos of Sedona, it has bumped up our list of places to go see!^

My wife and I did some hiking last Sunday up near Mt. Baker, perfect day and great hike!
Looks like it's going to be a terrific mountain blue & huckleberry year, the wild flowers are everywhere too!

All 10,781' of Mt. Baker


Climbing season is over, too many crevasses


Tiny little flowers


Hiking partner

[daepp]

Originally Posted by Skip Newsom

^Thanks for the photos of Sedona, it has bumped up our list of places to go see!^

You're most welcome Skip. Not nearly the same as the PNW, (and BTW - GREAT shots^) but there's def much beauty to behold. And I was told Oct-Nov are the prime months, but July sure didn't disappoint!

[JeremyD]

Tori Burch hiking sandals

[JeremyD]

Originally Posted by JeremyD

Tori Burch hiking sandals

[Racerbvd]

[Racerbvd]

[daepp]

The Chapel of the Holy Cross was a place I really wanted to see - its architecture is classic cathedral meets Southwest mid-century modern.



Cool ramp leading from the parking lot to the entrance

[daepp]

Final time in Sedona

Shopping Mall - Sedona Style!







Creekside







And early to bed for tomorrow's drive!

[daepp]

Regretfully, we needed to leave Sedona after just two day and two nights, and I totally blew the drive time for the next leg of the trip. Going from memory only (I should no longer do that...) I thought it was only 7-8 hours. Turned out that best case with no stopping it was 11 hours, and we had concert tickets for 7:30pm. Do up at 4, on the road just before 5, and we made it to Red Rocks with enough time to shower and get ready for the concert.


AZ Hwy 89 northbound out of Flagstaff





AZ/Utah Highway 160.





Moab and Arches National Park (I actually got to be a passenger for a couple of hours and take some photos!)





Somebody actually carved a 5000 sq ft home in that rock - at least that's what the internet told us - we had no time to stop!



The snow peaked mountains of Vale, CO. I wish I could have captured the awesome scenery of the Colorado River we followed through a canyon for about an hour, but I was driving and my copilot was sleeping. Next time!



We made it to our hotel in Morrison, CO (very close to Red Rocks) just in time!



690 miles in exactly 690 minutes - 11.5 hours. We stopped 5 times for coffee/gas/restroom/food/cigar breaks. PS - thank you Utah for 80mph speed limits. Since I often drive 10 over, and since there was zero traffic, and since I had new tires and brakes, well... a fair chunk of it might have been at 90ish...

[Baz]

Just before dark I cruised just up the street towards the Coast Guard Station and got a few pics of some I.C.W. activities.

There's a Manatee in that one pic if you look for the shadow. He just had his snout up taking in oxygen before I could get a photo.

[Eric 951]