Road Trip Day Five

It's time to tell you about our journey back home to Michigan from Arizona. I'm debating whether I should call this day one on the road since it's our first day heading home or day five since it's our actual fifth day driving (not our fifth day of vacation). I'm going with the latter so from here on out it will continue in order or our days on the road. So day five of being on the road after our week long break in Tucson took us to Sedona, AZ. We left my aunt and uncles Monday morning (June 7th) about 10am and headed north. We were advised by my mom and uncle to spend a good chunk of the day in Sedona. My uncle told us about some spots to stop at that would be good picture spots for Greg. Since it was after lunch time when we arrived in Sedona, the kids were hungry so we thought we'd better get them some food before our sightseeing. We ate lunch and then started driving through Sedona stopping at some lookout spots along the way. The sight of the red rocks were really pretty. We spent a few hours stopping at different scenic spots taking pictures. We also stopped at the Chapel of the Holy Cross. This church is tucked back in the mountains a little and is built right into the mountain. Quite the sight. We parked at the bottom and walked up the road to the church. The kids thought the walk up was never going to end and were relieved when we got to the top. We were told to look for the eagle in the mountain when we got to the top. Sure enough we found it. Here's a picture. Look closely and you'll see it towards the upper left. You'll probably have to click on the picture to see it better.

Here's a picture of the church from the bottom.

There's a mountain called "Snoopy Rock" that unfortunately we didn't find, but we did buy a souvenir magnet with it on it so we kind of saw it. Here's a few more pictures from our drive through Sedona. I'll share more on Facebook.


One spot we didn't get to stop at was Slide Rock. Apparently I've been there as a little kid, but don't really remember it. It's a spot where you can slide down the rocks in the water. It was toward the end of the drive through Sedona, but when we got to it the road was closed off. I'm not sure why, but we had to keep driving. I was glad Greg was driving too because there were some sharp switchbacks that I didn't like at all. Very pretty scenery, but scary roads with drop offs which I didn't like.

After making our way through Sedona, we arrived in Flagstaff for the night and got a hotel. This was our last stop before seeing what we all had been looking forward to... the Grand Canyon. I'll be back tomorrow to tell you about that. Our total for day five on the road was 298 miles of driving and quite a bit of climbing as the elevation went up along the way by the time we got to Flagstaff.