We took off bright and early (for us) and drove 2.5 hours north (or possibly east) to Sedona, which is one of AZ's best keep secrets. In fact, they keep it so secret that they don't even put up road signs to tell you that the town exists or where it is. You have to keep going up and down mountains until you find the place, but when you do.....WOW!
The Red Rock Desert is stunningly beautiful. The town of Sedona is cool - lots of little shops, lots of art galleries and lots of curio shops. We opted for a bus tour to see a chapel (for the record, I'm not turning into a religious nut - it just happened to be where the tour went.) The views were amazing! RRR learned that you have to be careful what you wish for. As we were heading out, she said she wished she could get motivated to walk more. When we got to Sedona, she got her wish. We had to walk several blocks to get to the bus stop and then she walked through several stores. We threatened to put horse blinkers on her so she wouldn't buy more earrings.
We ended up at the Barking Frog restaurant, where we had many firsts: RRR tried bison chili, I tried frog legs (I had to, didn't I?) and we all tried cactus fries made with nopales cactus. They were good, kind of like zucchini sticks, but the prickly pear sauce they came with was to die for! We barely scratched the surface of what to do in Sedona. We are definitely going back!
Lucky for RRR, it was dark when we left and she slept all the way home so she didn't miss much. Exercise will do that to you :-)
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