Back To The Adventure ~ The Road to Sedona

April 16

We started out with a little more adventure than we wanted!  Hook up the car, drive about 20 feet out the resort driveway and we hear this horrible scraping sound....knew right away our stairs hadn't gone up and that they were probably so bent they won't retract.  Very accurate assumption!  Rick spends the next hour taking the stairs apart; bending and hammering and voila, they're okay again. 

We opt to take the long way, through Laughlin, rather then over the Hoover Dam bridge.  Called the Dam Police (really that's what they call  them) and were told that the traffic was miserable as today they are blasting for the new bridge.  I'm thrilled with this because I'm not thrilled about taking this thing through that tight pass.

The route through western Arizona is very bleak and uninteresting.

Then Tor starts to overheat again as we make the climb to 7,000 feet.  We're stopping all time to let him cool down....that's both Tor and Rick!

It got progressively more interesting as we got nearer the Flagstaff area.  Rock formations dot the landscape, trees take the place of desert sands...and then there's the snow, yikes!





We've again turned a 5 hour trip into an 8 hour trip and we're racing to get to Sedona before dark....these roads are narrow, getting dark and curvy....hard enough to drive during daylight hours.

That first glimpse of the red rock formations as we near Sedona simply knocks your socks off!!


We miss the entrance to the RV park....are driving up a very narrow road with no where to stop.  Find a policeman who's giving someone a ticket and he tells us that there is a park about a mile up.  We unhitch the car so that Tor can be backed up and turned around.  Race back to the RV park, find our site and get in as darkness blankets the sky.

Exhale with a drink!