View from our window


Hello again, this time from Sedona. We woke up yesterday in Las Vegas. Bruce filled us full of coffee, even pouring the cream. We talked and played with the dogs, then set out for the Pilipino grocery store. Aisles of fresh whole fish on ice, along with octopus, squid and pork blood (?). (Corey claims she was glad to be there with friends because it was scary. I did find some new fruits and veggies. I bought some purple yams, evidently a mainstay of the diet, and banana pears, (just short, fat bananas) and seaweed salad). Corey reminded me of the milkshakes, avocado, yam and other things I’m not sure of the spelling. We went to Jason’s Deli for lunch and then took off for Arizona.
Blowing kisses goodbye to Bruce we went first to the AT&T store to figure out why my Bluetooth wouldn’t work. (Don’t ever turn it off at the phone.) Then we were off to the Hoover Dam. Do you know that there is a security Guard at the Dam and it takes about an hour to make it across? Crawl, crawl crawl. But we saw that they are making a bridge to flyover the dam, so they can eliminate the security stop and speed up that spot.
The dam buildings at the top are all Art Deco, with Statues and gold art deco doors. On one side you are in Nevada and on the other side you are in Arizona. If driving with a standard transmission, I advise coasting down the hill to the dam to save your clutch. We had to go about 5 MPH the whole way down.
On the other side we hit our first real desert. We did spend short time on Route 66. Mostly a lot of really funky old building with "Historic Route 66" painted on the side. Still lots of mountains and the signs claimed elk and big horn sheep were going to jump us anytime, along with falling rocks. Nothing jumped us, the weather cooled from the razor wire wind we met it first to cool breezes and we were again in the mountains, this time with firs and the twistiest roads to date. But here we are in Sedona! First thing out of the car (at 8:30 at night) was Gypsy Jenny’s. Awesome clothes from Nepal. She really, really hoped that selling these clothes was a good thing for the people in Nepal. She knew and liked her suppliers, a family from Nepal. I talked Corey into a wonderful cute dress made of recycled saris and I got some truly wonderful pants. Jenny had been a hairdresser, but she now has the shop, with singing bells and jewelry and this unique clothes. I really haven’t seen anything like them.
We met a youth group on a mission trip from Richardson Texas, Church of the Nazarene. The youth minister was in front of us in the line (Sorry for the delay taking your order. We weren’t expecting 50 teenagers). They had been to a Navaho reservation for community service and were on their way back. We got the veggie pizza, truely fine and listened to a musician sing about his father and how he was sure he too had long hair while he was standing next to Jesus and now he understood his son.
It was hot tub and sleep time. Woke up and looked straight out on those rocks in the picture. Took that from our window. Now we are off to Tempe.