Saturday LV to Sedona

We left Las Vegas about 9. It was another beautiful cloudless warm day. The Downtown Grand Hotel was a great place to stay. It is one of the Choice Hotel Ascend properties. Just two blocks off the Fremont Street experience. Would recommend to anyone coming to Las Vegas (know that it is a long way from The Strip).

As we headed east out of Las Vegas we passed through Henderson and the Boulder dam area. It is one big rock pile - spectacular in its own way but not very attractive. Heading across the desert until we reached Seligman, Arizona, a wide spot in the road which hangs on only through its historic reverence of the old Route 66.

From Seligman, heading East on I-40, we go up in altitude to about 7000 feet at one point. We suffered a lengthy construction delay which cost us about an hour. This section of I-40 is a terrible road with an unbelievable amount of truck traffic.

From Flagstaff we head South along a winding road down through the Oak Creek Canyon into Sedona. We found our hotel, the Arroyo Pinion (another Choice Ascend collection property).

We explored the town for a bit before dinner but it gets dark by 6 o clock. We drove up to the Airport Mesa Overlook and found hundreds of people waiting for the sunset! We'll come back tomorrow. We had dinner of barbecued pork sandwiches at the unremarkable Olde Sedona Bar and Grill.

Tomorrow we take a pink Jeep ride through the red Rock canyons.