Day Three – Holbrook to Sedona
Posted in Photos by Chris Mann
As you can probably tell by now, we are not all that big on sticking to the script… today we were supposed to have been starting from Flagstaff and travelling to Prescott – instead we started in Holbrook and wound up in Sedona – but hey, it’s our trip and we can break the rules!! 
Along the way, we visited Winslow, Montezuma’s Castle, Slide Rock State Park, and various locations in and around Sedona.First stop out of Holbrook was Winslow, a town whose two main claims to fame are being a stop on the Santa Fe Railroad, and the subject of a lyric in Jackson Browne’s song “Take It Easy“, made famous by The Eagles…
So like all good tourists do, we stopped to get our picture taken “standing on the corner in Winslow Arizona”, and checked out the railroad.
And here we are! Just to prove that we really did this trip and took all these photos (except for this one of course, which was taken by a fellow tourist).
The mural behind us has an “Eagles” reference…
He’s taller than I am…
Next stop after Winslow was Montezuma’s Castle, which is not a castle nor was it built by Montezuma. Good name!
It is in fact an Indian cliff-dwelling built some time between 1250 and 1400 AD.
While we were there, I was asked by one of the Park Rangers to take a photo of a rare hawk which he had just spotted in one of the trees. The longest lens I had was my 135mm so you will need to have good eyesight to tell that this is a sharp-shinned hawk… (I swear I am not making this up)
After Montezuma and his hawk we meandered back north along SR-179 to the Sedona area. Which has rocks. Big ones. Red ones.
On the way we encountered some old-school photography – a guy shooting film in a view camera.
I kept expecting a giant space mothership to appear and Richard Dreyfus to pop out of the undergrowth ready to get on board for a close encounter…
(that scene from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” was actually shot at Devil’s Tower in Wyoming)
It’s very difficult to show the sheer scale of the scenery in photographs. These are big tall cliffs!
Comments
Great stuff as usual! Did you happen to see any thick haze in today’s travel? Flying into Phoenix at about 2:00PM it was heavy.
Thanks for all of the updates, perhaps I will see you guys soon.
Great stuff again today chris. It seems like it is getting more picturesque each day.
Nice work again Chris and Jesus!
Chris I have photos from under that bridge. It was a cool spot to shoot from.
Be safe and see you tomorrow!
Larz
Great pics… thanks for letting up ride along.
Now to get that Eagles song out of my head… or maybe not, it’s a great song.
Was that a crop of the hawk, or the full image?
The hawk picture is the full image, not cropped. That was as close as I could get.
I’ve looked through all the travel blog-awesome images!
Next time, invite me, K?