Sedona

We stayed in Sedona for a couple of days in a beautiful RV park. The trip from Williams to Sedona ended with approximately 20 miles of scenic, winding mountain roads filled with pine trees and accented with scarlet-color rock formations and beautiful canyons. We would have loved to stay longer, but the RV park was booked for the weekend. Sedona is filled with interesting shops and restaurants and is a tourist’s paradise. In my opinion, two days wasn’t nearly enough to fully explore all that Sedona had to offer. It didn’t help that I had to spend Thursday morning on the phone, arranging for all utilities to be turned on in the Mission Viejo house next week. AT&T had me on hold for 77 minutes, assuring me all along that I would be helped shortly, then my cell phone lost the signal and it was all for nothing! That just about ruined my day. It took a while for me to lose the bad mood.

We discovered an animal we had never seen or heard of! Bob went out to get something out of the car the other night and he saw 4 or 5 animals roaming around. He thought they were dogs at first, but couldn’t imagine that they were. They got closer and they looked like wild boar! We were shocked and wondered what wild boar could possibly be doing there. He went into the RV park office in the morning and asked about them. The ladies laughed because they are all over the Sedona area. They are “Javeline” (the J is pronounced like an H). Although they look like they should be part of the pig family, they are actually very large rodents (truly the size of pigs!). We’re told they smell really badly and they have a snout like a pig that they use to rut up the soil so they can eat the roots. They have very bad eyesight and a great sense of smell. When we went into the shops yesterday, we saw Javeline statues and pictures everywhere!