Brandon's Xmas Vacation 2016

Producer Brandon's Christmas Vacation - 2016 - Sedona, AZ

ROUND 3 - Our last "hoo-rah" in AZ was the Grand Canyon. We figured that we would check it out since we were only about 2 hours away. Little did we know that it was going to be totally crowded, with lines of cars and people. They run this place like it's Disneyland, complete with resorts and shuttles to each of the different spots along the canyon. We didn't make it to the glass deck as it was on the opposite side of the canyon which would have taken us an additional 2 hours to get to. After the Grand Canyon, my wife wanted to visit a deer petting zoo. Happy wife, happy life... right? It was actually pretty fun.

Ooooh, the Grand Canyon!

Another big hole in the ground.

Meteor Crater is a meteorite impact crater approximately 37 miles east of Flagstaff and 18 miles west of Winslow in the northern Arizona desert of the United States.

AKA a big fucking hole.

These photos do it no justice... but you get the idea.

Enjoying the view.

Sometimes we look damn good.

Now off to the Peterified Forest! Petrified Forest National Park is a United States national park in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona.

"That's a lotta dirt"

Here we found some ancient hieroglyphs.

Again, photos do these natural wonders no justice.

ROUND 2 - Part of this vacation was to take my wife to some places in Arizona that she has always wanted to visit. Of those places were the meteor crater (the largest, best preserved crater in the world) and the Petrified Forest National Park. Here are some photos from those places.

ROUND 1 - Over the holiday vacation, my wife and I went to Sedona, AZ just to get away. We figured that since we get a week off together, we would do something we've always wanted to do. Visit the vortexes in Sedona, the Petrified Forest National Park, the meteor crater, Grand Canyon, and taste some wine in Jerome, AZ! That's where we start, our drive into Sedona from Phoenix landed us in the small mining town of Jerome along the way.

Driving in Arizona was amazing. Each turn provided a new set of landscape to enjoy.

Made it to Jerome. An old, supposedly haunted, copper mining town that is now known for its art and wine making.

Had to visit Grump Tower of course!

While looking for parking in Jerome, we saw this snowman. It was smoking a cigarette even.

Our first stop was to taste and buy a few bottles of wine from one of our favorite wineries, Caduceus Cellars & Merkin Vineyards.

All of the award winning AZ wines on display.

Next door to Caduceus was a cool Puscifer store filled with a ton of rock and roll memorabilia from the bands Tool, A Perfect Circle & more.

While walking around in Jerome, we stumbled upon this giant movie projector. This thing was huge.

Our drive into Sedona brought on some of the best scenery I had scene since Hawaii. Just amazing. These pictures do no justice.