Ganesh, he can be found even in the dessert mountains of Arizona. This is a nice trip if you just need to relax and find gazing into a huge crater exciting. There are pubs, Mystics, Palm Readers, Tarot Card readers, Cowboys, Cowgirls, Cowgays, Cowpokes, Cow Chips, Havelinas( Pigs that rulke the night), 15 varities of Rattlesnakes and a place called the Cowboy Club where I was lead to believe you could get a good piece of free range beef and a whore. ! out of 2 prooved to be correct.
Take the Pink Jeep Tours if you do the trip. Its like riding with Barbie and Ken is her bitch. Rocks. Yes , did I mention rocks? Red rocks, big rocks, phallic rocks, rocks that look like the virgin Mary, rocks with other rocks on top, rocks with rocks underneath, pretty much Sedona rocks....
We flew into Phoenix, 114 degrees F. "Its a dry heat", hell stick your head in your oven after pre-heating it to 114 degrees and tell me its a dry heat. Horse Patootie, its just freakin hot. Sedona is a 2 hour trip north, 20 degrees cooler. It actually rained on and off a few days. There are ancient American Indian sites you can visit on one of the Pink Jeep Tours, that was fun.
The trip to the Grand Canyon was an all day deal, left at 7:30am got back 5:00pm. We learned that a man had committed suicide the week before we got there by driving off into the canyon. LOL. The tour guy told us that they lose about one person a week to the canyon, not all suicides, some just stupid people who should have died years before, I am sure. The guide said he looked at it as thinning out the herd. After sitting on a bench and watching the other tourists I can see why, it would be like driving to the North Carolina Fair and picking up some of the locals there putting them on a bus and driving it off a cliff on Grandfather Mountain. Which by the way may not be a bad idea.
I could tell there were some transplants from California in Sedona as this one couple were engaged in a tongue duel in the Pub in the picture below. They finally came up for air after the waiter came by and threw a bucket of water on them. I thought maybe the dude had swallowed a big piece of meat and the dudette was not familiar with the Heimlick Manuvere and was going in with her tongue to check for debris. LOL.
All in all it was a pleasant trip and I was actually relaxed for 3 days after returning.
More RTP people's pictures and dirt to follow.
Happy Trials.