{"id":2166,"date":"2013-06-17T19:27:33","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T23:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2013-06-17T19:27:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T23:27:33","slug":"sedona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/17\/sedona\/","title":{"rendered":"Sedona"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Wednesday was a beautiful day in Williams. I decided it was also a beautiful day to visit Sedona, about an hour distant. Jett didn’t come with me as she had a headache and “wasn’t that interested in scenery.” Too bad, because she missed some great scenery.<\/p>\n

She also missed a nasty, narrow, twist-and-turn road (AZ 89A) down to Sedona from Flagstaff. It includes a 10-mile stretch with a vertical drop of 3,000 feet. That is even steeper than the 7-turnback stretch of CA 371 from Aguanga to Palm Desert that we avoided at the start of the QTE because I thought it might make Jett upchuck.<\/p>\n

Maybe it was good that she decided to stay home.<\/p>\n

Sedona<\/a> is a small town – about 4 blocks of commercial development along AZ 89A and a population of about 10,000 spread out across the valley and up into the hills. It is definitely a tourist town, replete with souvenir shops and even a Del Sol<\/a>, a shop that sells clothing that changes colors in the sun, which I have never seen anywhere other than tourist-infested towns.<\/p>\n

I wandered around a bit, then had dinner at the Cowboy Club<\/a> where I could have had rattlesnake bites (real rattlesnake) or cactus fried (made from real cactus), but didn’t. Instead I opted for more traditional BBQ fare: a pulled pork sandwich on a pretzel roll, with a side of cilantro-peanut coleslaw. I think the pulled pork was very tasty, but a little too juicy. The coleslaw, however, was about the best I have ever had. Peanuts in coleslaw? It works!<\/p>\n

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Pulled port and coleslaw at the Cowboy Club<\/p><\/div>\n

Photos from the trip into Sedona:<\/p>\n

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Starting the 3,000′ drop<\/p><\/div>\n

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Opening up into the valley<\/p><\/div>\n

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Near Slide Rock State Park<\/p><\/div>\n

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Near Sedona<\/p><\/div>\n

A few shots from downtown Sedona, such as it is:<\/p>\n

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Red rocks of Sedona<\/p><\/div>\n

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Harley-Davidson in Sedona<\/p><\/div>\n

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The truck parked in Sedona<\/p><\/div>\n

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I had to take this – another “Open Range”<\/p><\/div>\n

A few shots heading south out of Sedona:<\/p>\n

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Cathedral Rock?<\/p><\/div>\n

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A bit further south<\/p><\/div>\n

Heading west on I-40, approaching Williams:<\/p>\n

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Sun sets on I-40 near Williams<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Wednesday was a beautiful day in Williams. I decided it was also a beautiful day to visit Sedona, about an hour distant. Jett didn’t come with me as she had a headache and “wasn’t that interested in scenery.” Too bad, because she missed some great scenery. She also missed a nasty, narrow, twist-and-turn road … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,22,4,28,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-places-az","category-places","category-qte","category-routes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1VniU-sedona","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2180,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}