{"id":468,"date":"2018-10-11T18:56:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T18:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/?p=468"},"modified":"2018-10-11T18:56:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T18:56:06","slug":"sedona-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/11\/sedona-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Sedona Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi everyone!<\/p>\n

I’m seriously trying to get caught up on my blog posts.\u00a0 I have spent my “computer time” trying, unsuccessfully, to figure out my storage issue and also transfer pictures from the computer to the external hard drive I purchased.\u00a0 All attempts have failed.\u00a0 I have officially given up trying to figure it out until we get back home and I’m going to get help.\u00a0 Cell phone pictures will have to do.\u00a0 \u00a0Hey!\u00a0 I hear those snickers out there!\u00a0 I admit, computer storage and computers in general are not my strong suit!\u00a0 Somehow I manage to keep our banking and mail handled online, but this whole picture storage thing has me beat.\u00a0 Anyhow, onto much more interesting topics like my sister’s visit while we were in Sedona!!<\/p>\n

After I got back from St. Paul, Steve and I did a quick, above the rim only (no hiking) trip to the Grand Canyon with Gerry.\u00a0 A few pictures are included in the below links.\u00a0 It was okay, but crowded and, I guess, we are not that “wowed” by the Grand Canyon.\u00a0 Did I just say that out loud?\u00a0 I guess I did!\u00a0 We kept waiting for that “wow” moment, when we went to the north rim, and again when we went to the south rim.\u00a0 Didn’t happen.\u00a0 And Steve said the same, even when he and Bill hiked the Bright Angel trail a bit.\u00a0 And when Laura, my sister, came to visit, she and I drove up to the south rim and hiked a bit of the Bright Angel trail (pictures below).\u00a0 Still no “wow” there.\u00a0 Glad we saw it, but I don’t expect we’ll ever go again.\u00a0 I guess it’s just not our thing.<\/p>\n

We did, however, have a fantastic visit to Sedona.\u00a0 Love it there.\u00a0 We stayed for a total of 2 weeks, however only one week was actually in an RV park right in Sedona.\u00a0 For the week before Laura came, we were just outside Sedona in Camp Verde.\u00a0 It was a very nice campground, and only about 20 minutes to Sedona.\u00a0 BUT, the campground we stayed at in Sedona was fantastic.\u00a0 Rancho Sedona, right in the middle of town, right on Oak Creek.\u00a0 I had tried a few times to get a reservation there with no luck, so had given up.\u00a0 But our new friends Jeff and Lori, that we met back in Colorado and hiked with for a few days, insisted we keep trying, that a trip to Sedona without staying at Rancho Sedona was not the same.\u00a0 So I tried one last time and they had just had a cancellation!\u00a0 We got a prime spot right on the creek.\u00a0 Cool evenings and mornings, sound of the running creek in our windows, beautiful trees everywhere.\u00a0 A great home base for Laura’s visit.\u00a0 Thanks Jeff and Lori!<\/p>\n

I had heard Sedona was beautiful (it is); I had heard it was new age-y (it is); I had heard there were energy vortexes (vortices? not sure how to spell plural… and there are).\u00a0 Even though we had heard these things, experiencing them was even better than I had expected.\u00a0 We did tons of hiking.\u00a0 It was hot, but beautiful.\u00a0 We found several vortex spots while hiking.\u00a0 We all (Steve, Laura and I) experienced the energy at the vortexes.\u00a0 Sometimes the energy was moving in counter-clockwise circles, sometimes in clockwise circles, sometimes it felt like it was moving both ways and pulling in both directions.\u00a0 A very cool experience each time.<\/p>\n

One hike, at Boynton Canyon, was really great.\u00a0 At the beginning of the hike, there was an old guy with white hair, way up high on a rock point playing a flute.\u00a0 We sat with several other people and listened to the flute echoing off the rock walls.\u00a0 Amazing and moving.\u00a0 As we were leaving to continue our hike, he came down off the rock point he was on and stopped to talk to us.\u00a0 He gave us each a heart he had carved out of the red rocks, and gave us each a blessing.\u00a0 Amazing.\u00a0 We then did the hike and found several vortex spots that were very strong for us all.\u00a0 Quite an experience.<\/p>\n

On Laura’s first day in Sedona, we hiked Bell Rock.\u00a0 More of a climb than a hike, you pretty much rock climb to the top.\u00a0 Beautiful, and we also found a vortex spot there.\u00a0 As we were climbing up, there was a young lady with beautiful blue hair, with her boyfriend and her mom in front of us most of the way.\u00a0 When we all got to the top, I noticed she was setting out stones and crystals on the ledge and doing some type of ceremony with them.\u00a0 We got to talking, and she had just the stone I was looking for – a Rose Quartz.\u00a0 I bought (very inexpensive) it from her on the spot!\u00a0 She sells stones and crystals online, and was infusing them with the good energy at Bell Rock before she sold them.\u00a0 Sedona Magic!<\/p>\n

We also got to visit with some family we had not seen for years and years.\u00a0 Our cousin, Gina, lives in Phoenix and came up to Sedona for a day to visit.\u00a0 It was great to see her again and to reconnect.\u00a0 We also had dinner in Phoenix the night before Laura flew back home with Gina, a couple of aunts, and assorted cousins we had not seen for years.\u00a0 Some we had never met before!\u00a0 It was great to reconnect with family again.\u00a0 One of the benefits of this RV lifestyle is that we get to visit with friends and family we may not have had the chance to see otherwise.<\/p>\n

It was fantastic having Laura visit.\u00a0 As much as we love our RV life, we do miss home and family and friends too.\u00a0 Having visitors means so much, and sharing our adventure is so much fun too!\u00a0 Pictures below, hope the links work.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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Lots of pictures in this link:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/nJXXzDxtrQfUS5WE7<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi everyone! I’m seriously trying to get caught up on my blog posts.\u00a0 I have spent my “computer time” trying, unsuccessfully, to figure out my storage issue and also transfer pictures from the computer to the external hard drive I purchased.\u00a0 All attempts have failed.\u00a0 I have officially given up trying to figure it out … Continue reading Sedona Magic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}