Thursday, March 19, 2009

Slow Day in Sedona, AZ

After a quiet night at our campsite on the river, we awoke to 40 degrees this morning. Bob went for a run, then we headed into Sedona to wander around town for awhile. Beyond the spectacular Red Rock scenery surrounding the town, downtown Sedona is filled mostly with restaurants and shops featuring fairly tacky t-shirts, dust-catchers and cheap art, but just south of town is a village called Tlaquepaque that has several dozen galleries and shops featuring lovely items. We wandered around for a couple hours seeing many items we liked, but many of which were out of our price range, and eventually purchased two framed photographs, then had lunch at a grill in the village. Cathryn was ready for a nap, so after collecting information from the Forest Service office regarding local hikes (which only confirmed the location of hikes Hobie had already recommended) we headed back to the campground for a few hours so Bob could read a good book in the sun while Cathryn napped then did some email and newspaper reading online. It hit 85 degrees this afternoon. We did a short walk to Cathedral Rock Crossing this afternoon.
We plan to do more of a hike tomorrow and hope to post some interesting photos afterward.

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