I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 562. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about Native American

Ruins, Red Rocks, Volcanoes, A Sloc Canyon, and the Grand Canyon as we go to Northern Arizona. Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. I'm excited

about today's show to one of my favorite states in the United States

Arizona. I'd like to welcome to the show Mark Smith, who is a journalist from Fort Worth, Texas,

but has come to talk to us about Northern Arizona. Mark, welcome to the show.

Thanks, Chris. I've been listening for a couple years. I really like your show and glad to be a part of it now.

Excellent. And Mark will be looking for a job later on this week.

So if you fall in love with Mark and through this interview just

contact me and we'll get a we'll get you a hold of Mark. Mark you pitched me the

Flagstaff and Sedona area of Arizona we talked about it a we've expanded that, but why should someone go to

Northern Arizona?

Well, I had never been there until my wife and I went there in April and I fell in love with the place there is any kind of nature you want you can find.

Rainforest.

Well okay almost any kind of nature that you can find in the southwest U.S.

Okay. You can find in northern Arizona. There are mountains, there's desert, there's forests, there's Red Rock Maces and Butts, Badlands, lakes, big sky and fresh air, and then, oh yeah, there's canyons.

I think people may be familiar with at least one canyon in Arizona and what we're going to talk about that a little bit even that we have talked about the Grand Canyon a bit on the show.

We've talked about rafting through it, not so much actually visiting it from the rim.

So what kind of itinerary would you recommend?

We're flying into probably Flagstaff for this trip?

Most people that I heard and met while I was there,

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