October 16, 2014 Thursday  To Oak Creek Canyon and Sedona, Arizona

We said our goodbye's to the Grand Canyon and took off for Sedona, AZ.  Sedona has always been a quiet, cool (as in temperature) get-away for people in Phoenix.  We took a few trips there when we lived in Phoenix.  We have photos of Lib's Mom, Mrs. Yarbrough, walking along Oak Creek. Plus, Sedona is known for the Red Rocks and Oak Creek  running through the little town.

Red Rocks of Sedona

Still on top of the Colorado Plateau, the weather was still cool.  We drove past Flagstaff and the San Francisco Peaks.  We used to come skiing here.  The Peak is about 12,000 feet so it's a pretty good mountain for skiing.  We didn't get to see much of Flagstaff, or "Flag" as the locals call it, due to the Interstate routing us around it.  There was no Interstate here in the 70's.

We made it to the Rancho Sedona RV Park by noon.  After several attempts we finally backed Cream Puff into her spot and unhooked Fiona for the short drive to lunch.  We had a nice lunch overlooking the town and creek.

Our view from the restaurant porch; we are staying in a park on the creek in the trees you see below. Excellent location!

Missie and Lib decide to shop the shops of Sedona so I went back to the park and did some maintenance chores.  About three hours later the girls were back with shopping bags of goodies.

We set up our chairs outside Cream Puff and popped a bottle of wine.  Shortly another RV pulled in and two couples from Boston arrived as our neighbors.  They had experienced a slight mishap and needed to borrow my drill.  I carry a small "hardware store" in the back of Fiona.  This is from my boating days.  When you are a hundred miles offshore in a sailboat, if you don't have it with you, you aren't going to get it.  Between our boat and the Greer's sailboat, we could stock a small hardware store!  (A bit of an exaggeration but not by much!).  I was glad to loan them my drill.  

The Bostonians were on vacation and were a lot of fun.  They came by for a chat and toured Cream Puff.  As Cream Puff is only 25 feet long, the tour is not very long.  These guys are the scientists that work on developing new medicines.  I urged them to hurry up and develop more drugs for us Baby Boomers!

Boston RV'ers: Sue and Matt Laracy and Ken and Gina LaRose (one wife missing from photo!)

October 17, 2014  Sedona, Arizona

The next morning we took a walk around the park and Oak Creek.  I got some shots of Lib and Missie on the creek.

Oak Creek ran in back of the RV Park; this was a short walk from Cream Puff

And Miss and Lib got a little playful posing for a pic

Next, we are off to Phoenix.  We have mixed emotions about going to Phoenix.  We are looking forward to seeing the city again.  We hadn't been back in 10 years and we had heard from friends that there were big changes, i.e. a rail system in the city.  But, we also knew we were going to lose Missie. She was scheduled to fly out of Phoenix on Saturday.  So, with mixed emotions, we take off, coming down the Mogollon Rim and off the Colorado Plateau.  We know its going to be HOT when we come down from the elevations in North Arizona down to the desert.

Signing off!