Late Sunday night (continued....read the post under this one first to make sense out of this!). For some reason I can post words but not pictures tonight. Go figure. As Paige says, I am not suppose to be boring you with our pictures....ha. I call this my 'blah blah blah blog'....especially now that I can't seem to make things a tad more interesting with pictures!

Today we went to Sedona, AZ. It was app. an hr. drive from here. What a scenic drive on 89A....the prettiest so far. We saw the Slide Rocks...where bathers slide down these slippery rocks in the river. We stopped alongside the road at a rest area full of Indian vendors selling their beautiful handmade jewelry. Turquoise is supposedly only found here in AZ. We, of course, bought some. Sedona with the backdrop of the red rocks is a beautiful TOURIST town. We likened it to Ocean City back home....we love it best when the tourists aren't there. Since the elevation is several thousand feet lower than where we are staying (in Williams, AZ), it is much hotter in Sedona. We sure felt it!!! I saw a lizard...nothing else (scorpions/tarantulas)...whew. The people were friendly (as we have found on our entire trip) and we figured they must be happy folks. Sedona would certainly be a beautiful town to live in....as long as town wasn't too crowded with the likes of us tourists.

Some interesting facts about Arizona you might not know...
80% of the land here is considered public land.
You can carry around an unconcealed, fully loaded, weapon!
I have seen many men dressed in their camouflaged clothes, so I asked one in the store if he had been hunting....he said yes, he was hunting elk. I told him about back home...hunting deer (not that I do it but that there is a good chance of getting one for a hunter at home). Elk are huge and much more difficult to 'git'. He said the meat to elk was much tastier than deer because of the foliage the elk eat here is different (good ole sagebrush). Man o man....you git yerself an elk here, it might last you a few years....them 'r some huge animals. (snicker) Oh...and when you see 'road kill' here...the carcas stays on the side of the road (fully intact) because they do not have the birds of prey, like we do back home (or other animals), that take care of this for us! We saw a dead elk on the side of the road today and had to wonder what on earth happened to the vehicle....ouch.

Tomorrow starts our big travel East...but still in the Southwest. It will be a long day for sure. We will be in New Mexico somewhere tomorrow night. We THINK we will be in Oklahoma the next night and then on Wed. PERHAPS Arkansas (in hopes to see my cousin Doreen and sister Terri). My hope is to have WIFI sometime soon....but a better or easier connection than what I've had here. I am thinking it was overwhelmed with activity tonight or something and that is why I couldn't seem to post pictures. I have a lot of them, too. Perhaps you should consider yourself fortunate and just go to bed....ha...that is where I am headed.
'til next time....
Mary

Late Sunday night....
I don't understand but I've been trying to post pic.'s here all evening and it doesn't want to seem to let me. Also, it tends to turn my words around (under a picture) and I can't seem to edit it correctly (I am not really wording things backwards in other words!!!). I decided to try to post this little message as a test....I will see if it will allow me to. If it does, I will write more about our day here.