Except that I could not find the plane to track!

He flew in from San Diego. We came in from Atlanta. The adventure will begin now!!

Beautiful weather. Light breeze. Bright lights in downtown Tempe!

Sharmila went back to the room after dinner. My nephew and I spent an hour walking downtown Tempe, discussing his studies, life on the new campus, and plans for the future. We could have gone another hour, but Sharmila called to remind us it was getting very late!

Known for their famous pies. Multiple friends of ours had suggested we drop by this place. Very homely atmosphere.

Check out the surroundings! First view of the Boynton Canyon

Got Sharmila to take a video of my swim. That was hard to watch. Personification of inelegance in swimming!!!

The resort is located in Boynton Canyon. Surrounde by canyon rocks like this.

We started driving around the area after lunch. Saw some memorable formations around the canyon.

The skies were overcast. The structures still looked very impressive.

A massive, flat-topped red sandstone and limestone formation outside Sedona.

We were looking into all sorts of art in Tlaqueplaque Arts Center (there was a lot of it), when we came upon this very Indian style “chai” shop. Standard Indian fare: cardamom tea with Parle-G biscuits! None of the staff were Indian. They had impressive knowledge of Indian chai, though.

They even had rugs on the floor to sit down and drink tea. You can even see the standard marigold decorations on the ceiling!

Sheer limestone structures

This was on our way back to the resort.

We were driving back to the resort. It has been a bit of cloudy and rainy day in the canyons. It was bright sunlight outside the canyon area though. On the drive, we saw some crazy rainbows. I have never seen so many beautiful rainbows in my life. Here is one of them…

It seems to be shooting off the top of the Bell Rock!

Perfectly arched over Red Rock near Sedona. It stopped traffic as people pulled over to take in the beauty of the double rainbow…

Reminded us of the Uluru visit.

Also known as the Boynton Vortex

Also known as javelina, they are fairly common in this part of the country. Looks like pigs but are not pigs. Ran into a couple of them on our walk back from dinner to the room!