Flalgstaff and Sedona

When I was in graduate school at Oklahoma State University, Judy and I met and became friends with Wayne and Cynthia Sjoberg at our Sunday School class at the Methodist Church in Stillwater.  We  both graduated in 1967 and Wayne became a professor in the Psychology Dept. at Northern Arizona U in Flagstaff.  For several years, he had the additional duties of being the Faculty Rep for athletics.  We've exchanged Christmas cards and gotten together (all too) occasionally over the 47 years since.  While in Williams, I contacted Wayne and we arranged to get together on Thursday.

We drove over to Flagstaff, about 25 miles from Williams, and found our way to the Sjobergs' house.  They took us on a drive through Oak Creek Canyon to Sedona for lunch.  Had a very nice lunch and a great time catching up during lunch.

Oak Creek Canyon had a serious forest fire recently and all of the recreational areas in the canyon are closed.  With the "monsoon" season upon us (we had rain every day in Williams, I believe), there is great concern about mudslides and the road has been closed recently on very short notice.  But, we got through both ways.  Here are a couple of Sedona pictures.

Can't you just feel the harmonic vibes in those scenes.

Driving back to Flagstaff we stopped at the Oak Creek overlook and a very friendly Dutch man touring the States took our picture.

Had a great day with Wayne and Cynthia and look forward to seeing them again some time.

I should mention that the rest of our Allegro group left on Wednesday, so we were on our own Wednesday and Thursday.  As I mentioned, we decided Williams was close enough to Las Vegas that a side trip was justified.  So, Friday we drove the Explorer to Las Vegas to see Heidi, Joey, and the grand-twins, Julian and Landon.   We had considered driving Tuzigoot to Vegas but high temps and uncertainty about whether we could maneuver Tuzi into their driveway led us to leave Tuzi in Williams and drive the Explorer.  Anyhow, Vegas next.