Saturday, December 6, 2014

Sedona Itself

Sedona is a ritzy little tourist trap.  There are as many shysters strolling the streets trying to con you into timeshare housing as there are tourists.  The location is gorgeous, but the atmosphere is a carnival.

Granpa had found a restaurant that he wanted to take me to.  It was sequestered behind this brick wall and beautifully shaded by huge trees (whose leaves hadn't changed yet!)  Tlaquepaque.  What a name!  I could see a whole lot of dollar bills slipping out of our pockets here...


It turns out that the food was wonderful and the price tag not bad at all.  Afterward we strolled the courtyard that the restaurant was a part of.  Very upscale shops.  Sedona is a haven for artists, and this place had a lot of very expensive yard art.  This Native American capturing an eagle with his bare hands I thought was fantastic!


This shot of Granpa and a dinosaur skull I liked, too.  There are a lot of fossil shops around, and there's a high-class one upstairs here.  Check out the eye socket in that skull!  Check out the eyeglasses on Granpa!  He looks like a professor.  I love the way he looks with his glasses on.


We thought it was a really cool place - and there were no shysters anywhere!



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