Marc's Public Blog - Trips to other locations

After leaving Sedona/Flagstaff, quick stop at the Bonito Lava Flow. Didn't have enough time to stay due to a reservation at Lower Antelope Canyon and a 2h drive to get there:

Pretty route on the way, no time to stop, though:

Eventually arrived at Lower Antelope Canyon just in time for the tour with just minutes to spare:

first went to the wrong one

then found the correct one

it's a fair ways down

Then rain happened:

small rivers started to form :)

then it started raining for real ;)

Got exciting in very little time:

Getting tours last minute was hard, so I got one for wind canyon, but it also got flooded, so we went to secret canyon instead:

wider but nice

The nice bonus is the tour company had its own private access to Antelope Canyon:

While in the area, I tried to sign up for real "the wave" without success, but there was this very cool "the new wave" a few minutes outside Page, well worth the visit:

A few more pictures the next day before driving out:

Not far outside Page are Toadstools part of Grand Staircase Escalante NP. Cool walk:

And further up the road, there was Moqui Cave, fun weird quirky place:

this is very random :)

but just next door Sand Caves was a cool visit:

And that was it for the Page Area, next was Zion...

After landing, was greeted by Waymo cars taking people around, unfortunately they didn't go far enough for where I was going. Taking an uber all the way to Sedona, ended up being difficult and expensive, but eventually got there:

The next morning, went to visit parks/hikes with Mark:

Even the local mall, great views even then:

Then went to Bell Rock:

In the afternoon/evenings, we worked on LEDs :)

wiring a new array

part of the work was to reduce the amount of long ribbon cables

yes!

More lovely trails, this one to seven sacred pools:

sinkhole

The seven sacred pools were actually quite small :)

not quite enough to bathe, in :)

There was a very cool cave off the trail:

Mark had a great time looking around with me:

Later, went to Cathedral Rock just around sunset. Also beautiful:

Also lots of nice cute stores in Sedona:

Not a lot of shows during EDC week, so first went to the Vegas Sphere:

And then went to see the Empire strips back which was pretty entertaining:

I stayed in downtown Vegas, Fremont Experience was right there, fun walk:

Next day, yummy dinner at the Cirque in the Bellagio, with a visit of the conservatory first:

Quick visit of Caesar's next door:

And then back to the Rio for the Wow Vegas Spectacular, which was a mix of small shows, some better than others:

The unexpected highly, however, was Arte Museum at Aria

Nice little time, although of course the highlight was EDC Vegas itself