Blogs from Flagstaff, Arizona, United States, North America - page 10

Flagstaff Base March 31st and snow is falling in Flagstaff, which is unfortunate as we must come down from the Mountain to Phoenix and pick up Stacey, Joe and the boys tomorrow, yuk! We were late, but made it and all of us are settled in, cold but looking forward to a week of sharing some wonderful sight seeing experiences. The KOA is a beautiful campground in the pines and will make a great base camp for our travels. On April 2nd, we are off in our rented SUV (even a small RV, like our 30’ Georgie Boy would be a burden on some of these mountain roads). Our first day out the road leads us to Sedona down scenic 89A from Flagstaff. It is a most beautiful ride through Oak Creek Canyon and Sliding Rock ... read more

Day Thirteen Phoenix to Flagstaff We reluctantly left the warmth of Phoenix where we could pick up lemons and oranges on our walks, and headed north, through Sun City, and on to Prescott and the mining town of Jerome. Then into Sedona, and finally to Flagstaff for the night. Some of the day's highlights: A pair of older well dressed men with maps and computer printouts, rolling a measuring wheel along the road. Looking for a mine? Fake snake on the sidewalk in Wickenburg which startled me for about 5 seconds...more startling was a call later that night from Seattle friend Karl who was in Wickenburg, unbeknownst to us! The town of Prescott, which was much more interesting than we expected....lots of beautiful Victorian homes, and the "Smoki Museum", which holds Native American artifacts and some ... read more

Yes that's right, the project got changed. That wasn't the only surprise when the van arrived on Monday morning. Apparently it was too cold to camp out and so we discovered we would be heading back to Flagstaff every night, which meant i had seen the last of camping in America. Day one: Someone at Cedar house slept in and so we didn't leave Flagstaff until 8, arriving at the Wupatki maintenance yard around 9 to be told there was no work there for us and that we would be working back at Sunset Crater. We got there and after some discussion and posing with a sign to find a good location for it, we were ready to start putting it in place. We were ten told the chosen spot had already been assigned for something ... read more

So after rushing back from Phoenix it was time for another project. Back to Wupatki for 3 days of pueblo stabilisation, supposedly. Day one and after the short trip we found out the park guys didnt know we were coming and so we had no work for the short project. What followed was 3 days of visiting the sites around Wupatki and sunset crater. This was interesting, don't get me wrong but i was annoyed because i had been looking forward to working to restore the pueblos. Sites on the first day included the main Wupatki ruin and a large petroglyph site on the edge of the Navajo reservation. Then we headed back to camp early to set up camp and eat. Day two and more pueblos, this time Wukoki and then off to visit Sunset ... read more

Flagstaff or should I say Flue staff Firstly two notes for this blog 1) it will be a lot shorter than most (yippee I hear you cry) for reasons that will become apparent very soon and 2) it may be full of negative ranting on my part as I try to get over my current mood, so please take most of the following with a pinch of salt - some things just need to be said…… Anyway as we left Vegas and headed for the Hoover Dam, which didn’t take any time at all really, Nath, having started with a cough last night (which we assumed was all the smoke in the casino) had started to feel a bit worse, you know the usual just a bit run down, so we carried on regardless not giving ... read more