Before we head out to the rest of the known world, Sarah and I decided that we’d check out all that Arizona has to offer. First off, I’m assuming you’ve been to Arizona before. (If you haven’t, head straight for the Grand Canyon and Sedona for some breathtaking views of the natural world.)
We made our way from Tempe with the goal of attaining some delicious biscuits and gravy at Mike and Rhonda’s Place, a 24 hour diner in Flagstaff. We hopped into Sarah’s car and took off for the I-17N which thankfully had minimal construction. After about a 45 minute drive, we stopped in a little town called McGuireVille which has a fantastic restaurant called “restaurant”.
In the middle of this town is one of my favorite natural wonders that exists in Arizona, aside from the Grand Canyon, Montezuma’s Well. This isn’t some tiny well in the middle of the town… It’s a huge crater with ruins from the Sinigua tribe built into the cliff face. It’s quite incredible to see. The Sinigua tribe built up a complex of irrigation canals for agricultural purposes to the right of this well, which I highly recommend you make the trek down to. It’s quite peaceful down in the canals and incredibly beautiful in the fall. Very, very green. We made the trek back up the side of the well and back into our car back on the quest for biscuits and gravy.
About 40 miles outside of Flagstaff, we decided to make a short detour in Sedona for a scenic route and to check out Tlacquepaque, a cool little shopping center styled after a mercado in Guadalajara, Mexico. It was cool architecturally, but in my opinion the art inside is very kitschy, expensive stuff. Why yes I would like a buddha statue for $40,000! Oh cool free shipping? We did end up buying something but it was to tide us over until we found delicious biscuits and gravy. That something we bought? Kinder eggs from Germany! They are small little milk chocolate eggs which contain a cool little toy inside that you assemble. We crossed the road, illegally, which ended up being a highway to get to a UFO shop. The place was decked out with “greys”, the little aliens with the enormous eyes, as well as a replica of the mercury spacecraft from humanities early adventures into space. Unfortunately the store had closed early for the day so we never got to experience the joys of aliens…
We ended up back in the car zooming down the highway on our way to our goal of Flagstaff. We arrived after what seemed like quite a distance (it was only 40 miles from Sedona), and headed for Mike and Rhonda’s in search of biscuits and gravy. We pulled up to it and… it was closed. We couldn’t believe it. A 24 hour diner that we came all the way from Tempe for was closed! At this point we were starving and settled for a place called Alpine Pizza, “Flagstaff’s oldest pizzeria” and enjoyed a pepperoni pizza and some breadsticks. We didn’t find biscuits and gravy, but we did end up having a lot of fun on our day trip.
Before we head out to the rest of the known world, Sarah and I decided that we’d check out all that Arizona has to offer. First off, I’m assuming you’ve been to Arizona before. (If you haven’t, head straight for the Grand Canyon and Sedona for some breathtaking views of the natural world.)
We made our way from Tempe with the goal of attaining some delicious biscuits and gravy at Mike and Rhonda’s Place, a 24 hour diner in Flagstaff. We hopped into Sarah’s car and took off for the I-17N which thankfully had minimal construction. After about a 45 minute drive, we stopped in a little town called McGuireVille which has a fantastic restaurant called “restaurant”.
In the middle of this town is one of my favorite natural wonders that exists in Arizona, aside from the Grand Canyon, Montezuma’s Well. This isn’t some tiny well in the middle of the town… It’s a huge crater with ruins from the Sinigua tribe built into the cliff face. It’s quite incredible to see. The Sinigua tribe built up a complex of irrigation canals for agricultural purposes to the right of this well, which I highly recommend you make the trek down to. It’s quite peaceful down in the canals and incredibly beautiful in the fall. Very, very green. We made the trek back up the side of the well and back into our car back on the quest for biscuits and gravy.
About 40 miles outside of Flagstaff, we decided to make a short detour in Sedona for a scenic route and to check out Tlacquepaque, a cool little shopping center styled after a mercado in Guadalajara, Mexico. It was cool architecturally, but in my opinion the art inside is very kitschy, expensive stuff. Why yes I would like a buddha statue for $40,000! Oh cool free shipping? We did end up buying something but it was to tide us over until we found delicious biscuits and gravy. That something we bought? Kinder eggs from Germany! They are small little milk chocolate eggs which contain a cool little toy inside that you assemble. We crossed the road, illegally, which ended up being a highway to get to a UFO shop. The place was decked out with “greys”, the little aliens with the enormous eyes, as well as a replica of the mercury spacecraft from humanities early adventures into space. Unfortunately the store had closed early for the day so we never got to experience the joys of aliens…
We ended up back in the car zooming down the highway on our way to our goal of Flagstaff. We arrived after what seemed like quite a distance (it was only 40 miles from Sedona), and headed for Mike and Rhonda’s in search of biscuits and gravy. We pulled up to it and… it was closed. We couldn’t believe it. A 24 hour diner that we came all the way from Tempe for was closed! At this point we were starving and settled for a place called Alpine Pizza, “Flagstaff’s oldest pizzeria” and enjoyed a pepperoni pizza and some breadsticks. We didn’t find biscuits and gravy, but we did end up having a lot of fun on our day trip.
