meet Lelu...

If you have ever been to Sedona, AZ then you know about the Pink Jeep Tours. They are very popular tours of the Red Rock region and we took a tour back in 2003. It was 2 hours long and very fun, but this trip we rented our own Jeep (named Lelu) and it was the highlight of our trip.

Lelu brought us "over the hills, and through the woods" as well as "through the desert, and deep into gulches", we packed a ice chest of water & food and headed off for the day by 8:30 am and explored, picnicked and explored some more until after sunset.

We took the red rock trails the pink jeeps take as well as a few lesser known ones where we only saw one other vehicle our whole time on it.

Some of the trails were pretty rough…

and some quite steep.

No matter where you looked the scenery was awesome including out the roof…

We laughed and BOUNCED and laughed some more…

By late afternoon the setting sun was so low in the sky it made it pretty difficult to see our trails and we happened to be in Deadwood Gulch where one doesn't want to run off the trail! A stop to wash our windshield didn't help a whole lot…

but we just considered it more of the adventure :)

Tomorrow's post will be the beautiful scenery around the area...