Flagstaff, Sedona, and Prescott

This is a compilation of two days as I forgot to write yesterday. We went from Bakersfield to Flagstaff on Wednesday, which took about 6-7 hours. We stopped by a German bakery on the way in Tehachapi, which was good. I hate that, though. We live in an area of 50,000 people in Redondo, plus more than a 100,000 more in Torrance, but we don’t really have a good bakery. There’s no real German bakery, it’s just a bunch of generic, okay food. That’s one of the other beauties of travel, you get a bunch of bakeries in the most unlikely of places. Flagstaff was not that special, we weren’t there for very long, so we didn’t really do that much. We had some good Mexican food, though.

Despite the stellar picture quality that should easily determine what the item is, it’s about half of a 14-inch burrito. It had 3 meats, some cheese, some sour cream, and basically all good things.

In Sedona, all that we really did was a pink Jeep tour. We went on a rugged tour, which wasn’t actually that bad, since I was in the front seat. We had a good guide too. He did a good job, keeping three kids, a teenager, and three adults entertained. We passed by Jerome on the way out, which is such a weird town. It’s like they just pointed at basically a mountain and were like, “yeah, there seems good.”

The town is like tiered, with these weird roads and just a strange layout that sort of works? I don’t know, it’s a weird and kind of eerie town. Prescott is sort of interesting. It’s not nowhere, with a Trader Joe’s and a Costco. Also, apparently, it’s pronounced like Prescuit, like biscuit. I had some decent meatloaf in a sort of dark bar, but they did have some good wings and chocolate malt mousse. Prescott’s pretty high up–around 5200 feet. I love the terrain of Arizona. There’s areas like Phoenix which are quite low in elevation and are basically just a desert. There’s the higher desert in the northern area, which is like a desert, but 5,000 feet up. Finally, there’s the areas like Flagstaff that are up in the mountains, and get 100 inches of snow annually, which is more than Buffalo, NY! The elevation of Arizona makes it a much more interesting place, and I like it a lot.