Where the F#*k is YUMA, AZ???
Trip Start
Nov 26, 2005
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Trip End
Dec 11, 2005
Yuma, Arizona
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
9 am
Woke up and Naomi slowly was able to remove her hobbled body from the bed and went down to breakfast.
11 am
Checked out of the hotel and started to drive towards Sedona. When Jenn was 12 she had been on a "Pink Jeep Tour" through the red rocks of Sedona so we decided to try it. Naomi was a little worried about a bouncy Jeep ride seeing as walking up stairs seemed like a big feat.
1pm
Made it to BEAUTIFUL Sedona and had a quick snack before out tour started. The tour was literally pink Jeep Wranglers off roading in the red rocks. We saw some really pretty sites and found out a lot of good geology and botany info.
3 pm
We went to the artists area of Sedona and walked around for awhile. Our Cowboy from yesterday had suggested to us that if we went to Sedona we should check out the "Oak Creek Brewery". Seeing as we are the good Husky girls we are we never say no to beer. We got the beer sampler and pizza and enjoyed our lunch/dinner.
5 pm -11 pm
We had debated staying the night in Sedona (even contemplated a free night at a time share that we were offered). But we decided to head out south to get some driving time out of the way. We were worried about staying in Phoenix because we thought it would be expensive (keep this reference in mind for later in the story). Our GPS took us the shortest way, we love her BUT the shortest route didn't neccessarily include towns, which are sort of important when trying to find a hotel. We researched in our books, of course, and they gave us the possibilty of a town thst I can't think of the name right now but warned us that the town was on the sleepy side. This town wasn't sleepy, it was in a coma. There were 2 scary looking expensive hotels and we weren't sure what to do. It was 8 pm and the sign said "Yuma 96 miles" we looked in our coupon books and there were plenty of choices in Yuma so we thought it was early enough to try it (if you have common sense you would have stopped us at this point). We ended up on a two lane highway of nothing but darkness for about two hours. The highlight of this part was that our book recommended a place in Dateland that made excellent milkshakes. We found it and shared a date shake and a prickly pear shake. They were good, don't drive 3000 miles in darkness for one, take our word on it. Anyway after the milkshake Jenn started to call the hotels in the book. All Naomi heard was, "Do you have any rooms, no, ok thanks". The first time this sentence was said it sounded weird, by about the eigth time it sounded like a cruel joke. We drove past exit 12 which had a sign for one hotel but we knew that exit 2 had many more choices so we continued on. We got off at exit 2 and it was a booming metropolis (it's a relative term now). But there were a lot of stores and hotels. The first 3 hotels we pulled into had signs up that said "no vacancy". We stopped in at the fourth and they had nothing but the guy was really nice and started to call area hotels. He called about 6 before he found one, we said we'd take it, no matter what it cost. I got on the phone, gave them my info and found out that they were at exit 12. If you've been reading you would know of our trend of having everything closed but this was ridiculous. We are now in the one hotel room left in this crazy border town and only about 200 miles from San Diego, it's a huge suite and is the second most expensive hotel we've hadto stay in...what are we going to do tomorrow...we drove 5 hours too long today, guess we'll have to go sit on the beach!!
