![]() Some have views of the red rocks and some don’t. Most are large enough for more than one RV or tent set-up. FR 525 has roughly 4 or 5 spots suitable for boondocking off the side of the road. It appears to be a popular sight-seeing road and we’ve seen a ton of the pink jeeps from Sedona’s Pink Jeep Tours go by. 525, a long dirt road that forms a wide loop on the east side of town that travels from Hwy 89A about 7 miles south of town to 89A in the center of town. We’re perched high up on bluff above the town with views of the famous red rocks and a really nice “yard” of red clay and scrub brush. The view alone was worth the layer of red dust that now covers the back end of the airstream. So what if we had to drive 8 miles down a dusty, bumpy dirt road to get here. Well that solves that problem- Sedona here we come! High 70’s during the day and mid-40s at night was the forecast for the entire week and into the weekend. This week though things were predicted to swing in the other direction. Case in point, last Friday it was around 40 during the day and snowing. The thing about average temperatures though is that tend to vary quite a bit. The average temperature in Sedona this time of year is mid-60s during the day and mid-30s at night. How cold could it really be? Turns out not that cold. So then I started thinking maybe we could just go north. We looked into Lake Havasu, but all the state parks were booked, the boondocking spots reportedly had unreliable cell service, and these days private campgrounds hold very little appeal for us. Besides the weather there was nothing that really pushed us to go there. The more I learned about Quartzite the more unappealing it became. It ensured warm temperatures and would even bring us back to one of our favorite all time spots- Lake Mead. For about a month we’ve been planning to take the latter route. From Phoenix this means either traveling directly north through high elevations and cold temperatures, or going west to Quartzite, north to Lake Mead and then east into Utah. Except that we’re trying to to make it to Utah by April. ![]() It was too cold, too expensive and too touristy. Which is exactly how we ended up here in Sedona with a stellar view and temperatures reaching 80 by the end of the week! Or, if the weather decides to go all wacky and pretend like it’s May instead of March. ![]() ![]() Sometimes more if it’s a busy spot and we need to make a reservation, and sometimes less if we learn of a previously unknown spot that we want to visit. We usually choose the specific places we plan to stay a few weeks in advance. It goes something like this:Ĭhances are we won’t follow this plan exactly, but it helps us to have some general travel guidelines in place. A loose plan that seems to change quite often, but a plan nonetheless. While it may seem like we are just randomly moving around from place to place, the truth is that we really do travel with a master plan. Well this is one of those times because Sedona was not part of the plan. ![]()
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