Flying Lad in Sedona
When Flying Lad was six months old we drove cross country, from Florida to California. Mom got a new job and Flying Lad’s brother (Not-Flying Dog) didn’t fly well, so we piled into the ’96 Accord, with whatever would fit in the trunk and started our road trip. A road trip with a baby. It took us about a week and this is the route we took. Not many people manage to bring an infant and a dog on such a long drive, but we did! And here’s what happened:
We made many stops along the way. Here’s a list of our top 5 favorite moments of the trip:
missed favorite moment number 4 (see below).
finally arrived at our hotel – the Sedona Rouge, we were very happy. We booked this room through Hotel Tonight, sight unseen, but it was an extremely nice property. The next morning, we strolled around the property and popped over to Safeway and Starbucks next door, before we hit the road. We did a little sightseeing in Sedona before continuing our trip. Dad kept making jokes about hippies being out in the desert spinning around with their heads back. But we didn’t see any of that. The twisted tree trunks and the sweeping vistas of red rock mountains and valleys was unlike anything we’d ever seen before. It was beautiful! The best part, though, was as we drove out of Sedona, we could now see the splendor we had driven through in the dark. Amazing! I couldn’t believe what we had missed on the drive in and I’m so glad we got to experience it on the way out. Sedona, we’ll be back! By the way – it gets cold in Arizona at night! We had to put Flying Lad in a makeshift papoose!
Some tips:
Stop for lunch in Oklahoma City at Leo’s BBQ and it was everything you could have hoped for in OKC BBQ!
Finally, we made it to our new home in California. It took about 8 days, with a good chunk of driving each day followed by a night of resting. Dad did the whole thing and found it “wasn’t near as bad as (he) thought it would be”. There were tons of beautiful sights along the way, some surprising (Arkansas is a beautiful state!), and there were a lot of things we wanted to stop and see, but couldn’t either for time’s sake, baby’s sake, or because we had a dog. Would we do a long road trip again? Maybe! Flying Lad is older now so we’d be able to stop more places and enjoy more things. But we’d probably only do it if we were moving again.
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