They're short, but it is so nice to get out of Phoenix and up into cool country. We headed up Friday afternoon to Sedona to try to find a campsite along Oak Creek on 89A, but as expected it was full. So we decided to head up 89A past the Oak Creek Vista Point and find a forest road to head off on for dispersed camping. Forest Road 535 was the first one we sighted and took off on that to find a camp spot before it got dark. We made it in a mile about a 1/4 mile from the closest camp and set up. Of course 30 minutes later a couple families come driving up and set up camp a couple hundred yards away, didn't seem too bad at the time. After dinner we head to bed and after a couple hours of sleep I wake up to screaming and I'm wondering what the Heck? The kids were running around the forest and their campsite screaming their heads off from midnight til 1am, unbelievable, I thought I was listening to a horror flick. We get up early the next morning and head back down 89A to Oak Creek to find breakfast. We stopped at Indian Gardens to buy a Red Rock pass and see a nice little cafe, so the menu items look good and we order. They tell us we can eat out back in the garden area, what a treat. The food was delicious and the outside eating area was great, I highly recommend this spot. We head to Bootlegger Campsite which is a day use campsite only. We hiked down and along Oak Creek and found bushels of blackberries, though they were about a week away from being fully ripe. We relaxed and hung out for about 3 hours and decided to head up to Flagstaff to check out the historic downtown area. We found a campground on Route 66 just outside of Flagstaff, Woody's Mtn. Campground, plenty of open sites and a nice clean campground. It rained Sunday morning, so we hung out in the camper for about a hour and kicked back outside after that, dreading the thought of driving back to Phoenix, but realizing what a glorious weekend we had. We are really enjoying the truck camper and the spontaneity of loading it up and not knowing where we are going until we leave. We would not be going to 1/10 of the places if we depended only on our MH. I hope I didn't ramble too much, seems like a lot of text for a short weekend camping trip.
