We organised a stop here in Flagstaff to break the journey back to Vegas, but actually with the replan, we’ve only had an hour’s drive from Sedona. First we visited the Riordan Mansion, built in 1904 and an impressive reminder of gracious living in a small, territorial logging town. Built in the Arts and Crafts style, it has a rustic exterior of log-slab siding, volcanic stone arches, and hand-split wooden shingles and contains some forty rooms.
We are staying at the Weatherford Hotel, a historic hotel opened in 1900 and host to many famous people including Roosevelt, Wyatt Earp and the author Zane Grey who wrote loads of western stories, including ‘Call of the Canyon’ while actually guest. I’m up to chapter 4 and the hotel already has a mention! The bar was relocated here from Tombstone.
I hadn’t realised it was Homecoming Weekend for Northern Arizona University, with bars open for Tequila Sunrise at 6am … and the game not starting till 4pm! It seems British football fans don’t have a monopoly on pre-game bevvies but this was as close as we got to the game …
We ate in the hotel, and there was a band on in the bar and also a wedding in the Zane Grey Ballroom, so the place was lively, but we slept ok and are heading out, having finally had a short stack for breakfast!
Halloween is only a week or so away, so the stores are full of stuff and the cinema is advertising in Flagstaff … so here are cute smiley pumpkins meet zombies and meat puppets!
We stopped for fuel and Chris went walkabout at the truck stop snapping, and I had to include these …
Next stop is our final trail stop … Las Vegas!
Off Travelling Together 