Sedona or Mesa Verde

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both..."
Robert Frost

Elise and I started the day with a  discussion about whether we should head southwest to Sedona or northeast towards Mesa Verde. We had each heard good things about both places but we had been to neither, so it was a tough choice. When the gentleman from Brooklyn/Boulder, who was at the neighboring campsite, dropped over to ask how we had weathered the night, I took advantage of the opportunity to ask him if he had been to either of these places and if so, which would he recommend. He said he had a slight preference for Mesa Verde but Sedona was also too good to miss. In the end, we made what seemed to be the only rational decision under the circumstances - since it is unlikely we should ever come this way again, we would do both. Of course at the rate we were moving, we would be lucky to get home by Halloween, but we could deal with this later (if at all).

Eager to be on our way, we first took a nice long walk along the Colorado
River, which flowed quietly  a hundred yards or so below our campsite.

Our next stop was just a few miles up the road at the site of the Navajo Bridges. A fairly narrow two-lane bridge had been built across the Colorado River in 1929. Much more recently a new four-lane bridge had been built right beside the old bridge, and the old bridge had been designated as a walking bridge. We walked across the bridge and then browsed the stalls set up on the other side where Indians were selling their various craft wares.

At last we were off to Sedona. By about 5:30, we had gotten as far as the KOA in Flagstaff. We actually had reservations for a cabin at the KOA in Williams about 30 miles down the road, but the people at this KOA called Williams and the Williams people agreed to allow us to cancel our reservation without any penalty.
We did a food shop and bought some frozen fish, which I cooked up in the office microwave and we then ate in our cabin. It was a nice change from pasta and canned food.