A photo journey in Arizona

Day Four – Sedona to Carefree

Posted in Photos by Chris Mann

Our last day was more about traveling south-east to get to the DWF Convention in Carefree – although we did visit a couple of interesting places.

Actually it was more abut the people we met – the tour guide at the Tuzigoot monument and the local in Jerome – than the landscape and locations, though those were fine too. You’ll get to meet these people in the video of our trip…From Sedona we drove west towards Prescott, stopping off at the Tuzigoot National monument on the way. Built by Sinagua Indians and inhabited from roughly 1000 to 1400 AD, Tuzigoot is a pueblo village built on a prominent hilltop in the valley. Nobody knows why the village was abandoned, long before Europeans appeared in this part of America.

From Tuzigoot we climbed up into the mountains to the old mining town of Jerome. Maybe I’ve been spoiled by having visited ancient towns and villages in Europe, but I found Jerome a bit disappointing. It has a spectacular location, but a lot of the 19th century buildings now contain tourist souvenir shops, which rather spoils the atmostphere. Even so, we found things to photograph!

These stickers were on an old VW camper van:

And here’s a panorama of the view from Jerome across the Verde Valley (click to open larger version)