The next morning was a bit of a bust.
It started out with breakfast at a place called the Coffee Pot.
The Coffee Pot had…..
Antique coffee pots.
And was located on…
Coffee Pot Drive.
While you don’t often see that kind of symmetry in life, I think the road sign was probably tastier than our meals.
The husband’s pancakes could have been used as bicycle tires, and my sausage biscuits and gravy? Had no sausage. Blech!
The plan for the day was to check out the Indian ruins, petroglyphs and cliff dwellings that dot the landscape in this part of the world.
Leaving Sedona the clouds were hanging low.
Which made for some nice scenic shots.
Before long we arrived at destination #1…
Montezuma’s Castle.
And found a locked gate.
Destination #2?
Yeah.
Another locked gate due to the government shutdown.
I said it.
They didn’t.
This was all we got to see.
I gave up on the petroglyphs as they were National sites as well. Stupid shutdown! Bad enough we had no paycheck… but now they were screwing with our vacation plans.
Back in the car for the return trip to Sedona.
And let me tell you, Kokopelli may rule the Indian tchotchkes market…
But Starbucks rules the world.
Since the husband never likes to take the same route back, we ended up on some middle of nowhere road with questionable directional signs.
See the arrow?
It’s pointing off the side of a cliff.
We may have been tourists, but even we didn’t fall for that.
(Fall. Get it?)
No, but I try.
River's world..... 
That biscuits and gravy is all wrong. Many levels of not good. Honestly, if you can’t get a decent southern breakfast speciality in the desert of Arizona, what is the world coming to? 😉
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I know! It was a plate of pasty awfulness… very disappointing.
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Even with sausage, it is pasty ickiness. I cannot handle that dish. Gimme a good Everything Skillet with Jalapenos, eggs sunny side up runny yokes and wheat toast….YUM!
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I don’t eat eggs… so, no.
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sure you do. In the biscuits, and cake, and cookies and and and and…..OH and hamburger buns…….and …..and……um…..*I’ll go quiet now*
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Agreed. As long as I don’t know they’re there… I’m good.
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lol………….but………now you do…………sorry
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That’s too bad about Tuzigoot and Montezuma’s Castle. We visited them on a family vacation when I was 13 and enjoyed them both. Maybe next trip?
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If there is one…. yes!
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“See the arrow? It’s pointing off the side of a cliff.” I LOVE that tree!! LOL
OMG! That’s enough gravy with the biscuits to cover any sausage if there was sausage!!
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I did too, it was almost too perfectly stark and creepy.
As for gravy, yes it was. But without the sausage… I didn’t care.
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FINALLY! Tuzigoot. that was the one. We didn’t get into it either! (near Pepe’s breakfast joint) Montezumas castle. (not worth it imo)We went it was 30 degrees F. Loved the first picture.
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I really wanted to explore Tuzigoot, so that was a big disappointment. I’m almost glad Montezuma was a bust since I missed it.
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That must be one of those signs Wile E. Coyote flipped to try and fool the Road Runner. You shoulda looked for the coyote shaped hole in the ground down below…
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I should have!
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Haha! Fall for it! Haha!
Okay, those biscuits in gravy are SAD.
Also, MAJESTIC CLOUDS!
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Very, very sad.
And thanks, I love me some clouds.
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Oh, but you are! Funny, that is. 😉
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Maybe the gov’t shut down the gravy factory as well! Ugh. Mona
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The gravy was abundant, but I think the sausage factory had definitely shut their doors…
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