Day 2 - Hit The Trail

David's Journal

Our second day started off the day by loading up on jeeps to take a "Canyons and Cowboys" jeep tour of the Dry Creek Basin area around Sedona.  The natural sights around Sedona are quite a thing to behold.  During our tour we had to stop because a snake was crossing the road.  Our driver get out and brought the snake over for all of us to see and hold if we wanted to.  At the end of the tour we went to the Sedona Heritage Museum, where we had lunch.  After lunch we started doing some arts and crafts, and we sculpted soap carvings and made dream catchers.  After that we spent some more time in the museum and then walked back to our hotel (our choice, bus was available).  We spent the rest of the day lounging about in the pool and hot tub at the hotel.  In the evening we walked down and walked along the Oak Creek right near the hotel.

Amber's Journal

Day 2 Sedona (Hit the Trail)

This morning we gathered for a group buffet (they sure fed us well!) breakfast, and then went out to meet our three cowboy guides for the jeep tour.  The ride was fun, bouncy, and hella scenic!  Photo paradise!!  One of our guides joked that Disney had come out, and set the whole area up, and that the rocks "Were only so high because that's as high as you can pay a guy to go up on a ladder!"

Our guide took the jeep up some impressively steep outcrops of rock--at one point he turned around to us and said "Ever climbed a staircase in a jeep?" The outcrop he drove up looked darn well like one!

The three guides we have are all real cowboys, but they also did law enforcement, movie script historian work, and one was even an extra on the TV show Deadwood.

After driving for awhile in Technicolor desert splendor, we drove out to a historic abandoned cabin (which was well checked for snakes before we were allowed to put a toe near it!).  The cabin is kept in a semi-ruined state which means it's not being restored, nor allowed to collapse.  Civilization however, has crept up to the cabin...after walking through rugged desert and middle of nowhere-ness, you turn around...and behind the cabin's a golf course!!!

We then drove out to a second cabin which is the Sedona Heritage Museum. This cabin is kept preserved, and has furnishings and items from the original family who lived there in pioneer days.  We did some fun crafts in their barn--we did soap carvings and dream catchers. David did a howling wolf, and I did a tortoise.  They also showed us some cowboys skill such as roping a calf--played by one of the members of our tour!

After the return to civilization, we walked around Sedona and did some shopping.  Sedona is a cute town--got a bit of a New Ager infestation due to some "vortexes" of energy nearby, so you see a lot of crystals and stuff.  We had dinner in a nearby restaurant called Oaxica (or something similar) and I had a buffalo burger which turned out to be one of the best burgers I've ever bitten into in my life! We finished the day with a short stroll along the nature trail below the resort which follows Oak Creek.  Then...off to those sinfully soft beds with their lovely fluffy pillows and snuggly thick comforters...aaahhhh!

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