Dora was invited to give a presentation at a conference being held in Phoenix, thus I had planned to go with her for support.  When the date got closer, the conference unfortunately changed to a virtual meeting instead, but Dora and I had decided to keep our planned trip and visit AZ together. We had a short trip, thus we planned for one day at Sedona and one day at Phoenix. 

     We arrived at the airport at similar time on Sunday and we drove to a town near Sedona.  We were able to see the city at sundown and had a nice dinner in the village.  The next morning we woke up early to get to a very popular hiking trail, Devil’s Bridge.  We made it in time for parking and after an interesting beautiful hike on red rocks, we made it to the scenic spot.  We decided to wait for our picture time which we were glad that we had.  The hikers there helped each other to capture the moments and our pictures came out awesome.  After a troll in the village and a good lunch, we left the beautiful Sedona to drive back to Phoenix.  Sedona was definitely a nice place and we were there in a good weather; thus we were happy that we made the drive for it.

     In Phoenix, we did not find it as interesting.  We walked around one famous street and had dinner.  The next morning we hiked in Papago Park to find “Hole in the wall” and saguaro cactus; it was a nice hike there too but felt very different from Sedona.  Overall this AZ was a nice visit and it was awesome hanging out with Dora.  I did miss the family and so I brought home two “cactus friends” for the boys.  Here are our photos.