Berry Summer Adventure part 4

Beautiful Flagstaff!!! We've made it through dust storms, dust twisters, crazy DEET rashes, cold, hot, dehydration and coyotes howling right outside our tent so far. The drive from Albuquerque was quite boring and hot. After six hours, the elevation suddenly went up to 7,000 ft. and the desert climate quickly changed from sand and shrubs to grass and pine trees! It was cloudy, but pretty chilly. We found our campsite, pretty nice for just checking it out online! After camping a week in Red River without showers, they were a must for our next stop, so I quickly had to find a new place before we got to Flagstaff. After we set up camp, we walked around downtown and fell in love with the city. So much to see and do! Everyone was outside, there were cool temperatures, and we were surrounded by the beautiful San Francisco peaks. We ate at a sushi place the first night. The next day, we woke up early and headed to a farmer's market in Flagstaff. There was so much to choose from and a lot more than what is typically offered in Nac. Then we drove out to a state park to get a look at some Native American ruins. We had planned to go to a Navajo indian reservation, but it was three hours away, so we opted not to. We were tired of driving. We were surrounded by Indian reservations on all sides in Flagstaff. The state park that we went to had ruins of five or six sites, and what was really weird is that a lot of the landscape was created by volcanoes. On the way to one of the sites, we hiked up the site of one of them. It was pretty difficult to slip and slide on volcanic cinder and gain about 500 ft. in a half mile, but the view at the top was worth it. When we got back to Flagstaff, we went to eat at a brewery in town. So delicious! I am going to be so spoiled by good food when we get back to Nac... and here we were thinking we were going to eat Ramen noodles and peanut butter for 14 days... NOT!!! "It's vacation!" Shawn kept saying. So, of course, I went a long with it. I can't resist new food in new places. This brewery had hard cider, my new fave, and we got pizza to go with it. Mmmmm. I like camping.