As we drove, the scenery slowly changed from cacti-covered hills to crazy red mountains. The temperature also slowly changed from 103 degrees in Phoenix to 81 degrees in Sedona.
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It took us about two hours to get there (love the 75 mph speed limit, although probably not if I had been driving), we stopped to eat at a quaint Mexican restaurant (good food, but the restaurant was a little on the dirty side) in the Village of Oak Creek right outside of Sedona, then drove straight back to the Phoenix airport.
Cacti mountains:
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(This is my favorite thing about Phoenix: layers of mountains each way you look.)
(This is my second favorite thing about Phoenix: two-story cacti everywhere you look.)
Somewhere in between, it looked a lot like Texas:
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Red rocks:
I love to see places that look different than anywhere else I've seen. I love to be able to imagine somewhere in my mind, and know exactly how it looks from real life rather than from a movie or photograph I've seen.
And, my husband, this is just for you, because I know this post's title is killing you:
"The Latin plural cacti, the English plural cactuses, and the uninflected plural cactus are all used in English."
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