In early September, after our awesome California adventures, we started back toward Arizona. I don't remember where this was located along the way, but a wall-mounted Pac-Man game is photo-worthy:
More curiosities on the shelves - including Bob Ross! Not just an energy drink, but a positive energy drink, of course:
John attended a solar conference in Las Vegas while I did some running around the city. I found the canoe rental place:
Under the Monorail track, looking at the Sphere peeking out, and I think the walkways were newly constructed to let conference people walk from one building to another:
Memories of the Urban Challenge finals in 2002:
Hey, is anyone driving that thing? I think this was an early glimpse of a robo-taxi:
John found our friend Jason working at the Trina Solar booth - Hi Jason!
A "burlesque parody" at The Rio where we were staying:
OK, enough city stuff. On to Flagstaff where we were back in the beautiful high desert. Andrew and Squid joined us for a hike up to SP Crater. I think Squid was adjusting to her little booties (good things to have on the cinder rocks):
I repeated my circumnavigation of Mount Humphreys (without the ups and downs to the summit this time!) as a solid training run. FKT's always inspire me to push harder than I might otherwise.
The "Round Hump" page with my write-up:
Just a couple pictures from the run... I love this rock tunnel on the Waterline road so I have to include it here:
I also love trails through ponderosa forests:
I also love aspens! It surely was a good day:
Higher up on the slope of Humphreys (on a different day) we returned to the plane crash site because Andrew (and presumably Squid) had not seen it before. It's quite a view of scattered plane parts down the lava-rock field, with smaller cones in the distance:
Also kind of amazing to see all this machinery up here:
Another fun day with John and Andrew and Squid:
And finally, Andrew joined me for an FKT run down around Sedona:
John climbed with us up to pass #1 and took this picture:
Such beautiful scenery! I could live in Sedona for months, explore trails every day, and still keep seeing new and wonderful things all the time:
I think this was on the way up to pass #2, the shortest but hottest of the climbs:
Heading up toward pass #3 (thankfully in the shade of many trees) and I'm sort of pointing to the Vultee Arch:
Approaching the end of the run:
Well done, Andrew!
What an awesome day, thanks for the company on the trails!
