Day 48 (D-13) Sedona / Grand Oak Canyon / Mexican restaurant / Trisha! / NOSTALGIA!!

June 05, 2019

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Five hours on the road on this 12th day of our trip. We'll be going from Flagstaff to Phoenix, with a stop-over in Sedona.

First, look at the google map:
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Flagstaff,+Arizona,+États-Unis/Sedona,+Arizona+86336,+États-Unis/@35.0339259,-111.8453254,11z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x872d8ef7da2e2631:0x8e1f3ca1cedbb300!2m2!1d-111.651302!2d35.1982836!1m5!1m1!1s0x872da132f942b00d:0x5548c523fa6c8efd!2m2!1d-111.7609896!2d34.8697395!3e0

Don't get excited about Kachina Village, which you can see on the map. It's just a bedroom community for Flagstaff, with 89% of the population white and 4% Native American.

But you do know the origin of the word "kachina"!

However, we will stop to see Oak Creek Canyon which is between Flagstaff and Sedona.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/86624586@N00/10194359/in/set-296110

Sedona is just a short hour drive from Flagstaff, so we'll have time for quick sightseeing. More beautiful landscape here.

Sedona is located in the upper Sonoran Desert. Its main attraction is its stunning array of red sandstone formations, known as the "Red Rocks of Sedona", and this particular rock can only be found in this area. The formations appear to glow in brilliant orange and red when illuminated by the rising or setting sun.

By Terrydarc - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26873069
Cathedral Rock is a natural sandstone butte on the Sedona skyline and one of the most-photographed sights in Arizona

Look at the landscape in this Western, Firecreek, (1968), starring Jimmy Steward and Henry Fonda.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wXp-MHCApI

And Johnny Guitar, (1954), the cult classic Western, was shot near Sedona, at Coffee Pot Rock.

Coffee Pot Rock, scene from the film

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We'll be having lunch in Sedona. (I'll keep the name of the restaurant a surprise.) I will tell you that it is pronounced "Wa-Ha-Ka". And here's a little of their advertisement:

We hand prepare our sauces and salsa from nature’s finest ingredients using local

fruits and vegetables that are garden and orchard fresh.

We prepare our Mexican specialties daily from scratch.

We use only the finest blue corn from the Native American plains of New Mexico.

We use premium aged domestic cheeses as well as artisanal Mexican cheese.
Maybe grilled cactus on our menu?

Stop!

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NOSTALGIA

And another surprise for my travellers. I'll be able to introduce you to two American friends. Trisha, John and I went to high school together...a LONG time ago...in Ohio! John and I were in the same class; Trisha, is a year younger. Facebook and Instagram didn't exist back then, but high schools did make a Yearbook every year. In fact, a yearbook is the model for Facebook.

Here are our old photos from yesteryear!

Can you find Trisha? Can you find Jane?