Sedona When we were in Flagstaff, Arizona, people kept telling us to visit Sedona, they said it was really beautiful, so we did, and it was. We stayed in a nice motel with really nice rooms and it only cost about £25 / $50 because we had to go and see a timeshare presantation the next morning. In addition they gave us $40 of food / shopping vouchers which we could spend at restaurants in town and a free pass to the Christmas Lights Fayre. I had no intention of buying a timeshare so to get dinner and a room for that price was well worth it. The picture above was the view from our bedroom's balcony, pretty stunning ? This is the main street of pretty / touristy Sedona. Is is a wonderfully attractive place but does suffer slightly from an overabundance of timeshare / jeep tour sellers all trying to entice you in. Mrs YS with some strange piggy statues, these were by a local artist and based on Javelinas which are a kind of Peccary, or small pig like beastie. We had thought that while dining on the rim of the Grand Canyon that we were at the restaurant with the best view in America, but we thought that this was even more beautiful. These wonderful iron ore stained mountainous outcrops rise up all around Sedona which nestles in the midst of them. I went walking of course, as was described here in "Mad Dogs, Englishmen, Shit". We had already driven through some pretty remarkable landscapes, but I just had to get out on foot here, it was wonderful. You get much more from the land by walking on it. I dare say the bumpy, dusty jeep tours were a barrel of laughs, but you don't get the same feel for a place when roaring around in a motor vehicle. I walked up to the base of this formation before turning for home. After my hike I sat in the outdoor jacuzzi with a book, a couple of cans of lager and my camera to hand as the sun began to set. I could hear the gentle buzz of voices from the restaurant, and the happy shrieks of children made soft by distance, the warm water whirled softly around me and I did think that life really doesn't get much better then this.