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Rob's face was stuck this way for the entire trip. |
Not much else out there besides trains. |
The drive... eight hours from Los Angeles to Sedona... with many bathroom stops |
More scenic vistas along Highway 40. |
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Sliding Rock State Park, Sedona, Arizona. |
Look! More rocks! |
The sad remains of many bugs on our windshield. |
This looks like a camel; no wait, it's a dromedary! |
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Jeff got seven phone calls from work- don't cell phones EVER lose their signal? |
Grasshopper Point Recreation Area- Rob almost fell in trying to take this picture. |
Wow, a dromedary from far away. |
Rush hour in Sedona. |
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Dem sunsets are purrddeee. |
Another one of those rock things. |
This is a crazy chapel built right into the rocks. It was small inside, but they had a pretty good gift shop. |
View from behind the chapel. |
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Looking out over Sedona from the chapel. |
The Sedona Airport is the highest point in town. |
The view of a tree out of the window of a ruin of a cliff dwelling. |
A "wall" inside the cliff dwellings. |
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The doorway to one of the cliff dwellings. |
I bet these windows were easy to clean. |
If this was Anne's window, there would be a flower box on it. |
Rob pretending to believe the geology stuff that this volunteer is spewing. |
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Stay off ancient mound. |
Wow, big hole in the ground. |
Yes, the last picture is slightly different. |
The good news is that if the idiot fence doesn't keep you from falling off the edge, you're not an idiot. |
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It was really a lot colder than this looks, at least on the top. |
Elevation at the rim: 7000 ft. Elevation of the Colorado River: 2000 feet. That's a long fall. |
Anne was getting camera happy. |
It's pretty hard to take a bad picture of the Grand Canyon. |
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The North Rim across the canyon is a couple hundred feet higher than the South Rim. |
The earth is a little tilty in this one. |
Yup. |
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They're not posing; they were frozen there. |
Rob does actually believe that he is Ray Charles. |
Eustacia is happy that she'll be back in the hot tub at the Best Western in a few hours. |
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Anne sez: "That's a pretty picture!" |
more trees |
less trees |
Jeff was resting comfortably in the car when it started to get dark. The rest of the troupe showed up 2 hours later. |
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Yes, it is way too dark to be still hiking. |
View from the East rim including the Colorado River. It was apparently dyed brown(?) for St. Patrick's Day. |
The view from Desert View |
You should know 3/4 of the people in this picture. |
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Desert. Desert. Desert. Desert. Weird Mound. Desert. Desert. |
The Grand Canyon ends here. Please step off onto the moving walkway on your right. |
We let Eustacia loose with some chalk. |
Hanging out in the Desert View tower. |