Friday Fuss From A Traveling Sasquatch

Today, I decided to "take it easy", as the song goes, and just hang around Sedona and do at bit of hiking.  Now that I'm back from my exercise, here are some things going on:

From National Review, guess where China's newest nuclear submarine, which has sunk and is leaking nuclear fuel, is located.

From FrontpageMag, congresscritter Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) won't endorse presidential candidate Vice President Harris.

From Townhall, two illegal aliens are charged with conspiring to kidnap other illegal aliens.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the U.S. must side with Israel against Hezbollah.

From the Washington Examiner, thanks to President Biden and Vice President Harris, 13,000 illegal aliens convicted of homicide roam free in the U.S.

From The Federalist, New York state judges scrutinize the penalty in former President Trump's civil fraud case.

From American Thinker, yes, Secret Service agents are getting a free trip to an LGBTQ conference at Disneyworld.

From MRCTV, some people think that the new throwback logo for the Atlanta Falcons reminds them of the Third Reich.

From NewsBusters, 30 questions which CBS should ask vice presidential candidate Governor Tim Walz (D-Min) and three for his rival Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH).

From TCW Defending Freedom, "look forward in anger" at what socialists want to impose.

From Snouts in the Trough, could the intended destruction of Israel be the beginning and not the end?

From The Times Of Israel, the BBC airs a film about the October 7th attacks, but omits references to the terrorist group Hamas as being terrorists.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to sources, the Mossad has stopped over 50 terror attacks backed by Iran against Jews since October 7th.

From Jewish News Syndicate, pro-Hamas vandals deface and set fire to a synagogue in Eshtemoa, West Bank, which synagogue was built in the 4th or 5th century.

From Gatestone Institute, for terrorists and their supporters, "rape is resistance and beepers are genocide".

From The Stream, when Christians (finally) fought back against Islam.

From The Daily Signal, the Abraham Accords have produced four years of cooperation between Israel and Arab nations.

From The American Conservative, the domino theory, popular during the Vietnam War, still refuses to fall.

From The Western Journal, Harris's border visit fails before she even arrives at the border.

From BizPac Review, amid a lawsuit by Republicans, North Carolina removes 747,000 ineligible voters from its rolls.

From The Daily Wire, a strike by dock workers could keep Harris out of the White House, so why won't Biden stop it?

From the Daily Caller, liberals don't like getting a taste of their own medicine from the Chief Twit.

From the New York Post, New York City business leaders try to prepare for the possibility that a socialist will be running the city of Mayor Eric Adams (D) is removed from office.

From Breitbart, according to Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R), American voters won't be fooled by Harris's aforementioned visit to the border.

From Newsmax, a grand jury indicts a group of Iranians for allegedly hacking Trump's campaign.

And from SFGate, when in San Francisco, don't get too close to the Transamerica Pyramid.

Homolovi State Park

Located just off Arizona highway 87, Homolovi State Park is northeast of Winslow and preserves some archaeological sites built by various people including ancestors of the Hopi.  While these ancestors are sometimes called Anasazi or Ancestral Pueblo, the Hopi call them Hisat'sinom, which means "long-ago people" in their language.

The park includes two clusters of ruins that are open to the public.  At the visitor center, the receptionist suggested that I first drive northward to the area known as Homolovi II and afterwards visit Homolovi I, near the southern end of the park.  On my way to Homolovi II, I encountered some local inhabitants.

Winslow, Arizona

After visiting the abandoned sites of Twin Arrows and Two Guns, I continued eastward to a place that is very much active, and famous because of a song.  But before I went Winslow's most well-known "corner", I found a place to park on 1st Street, along which extends the First Street Pathway Park.  The park includes these "Art Cars".

Abandoned Places Along Interstate 40

Today I again ventured north from Sedona and went eastward on Interstate 40, stopping at two places which used to be points of interest, and in a sense, still are.  What I mean by this is that they've been abandoned by just about everyone except graffiti artists and explorers.  I'd say that I've fallen into the latter category.  The first used to be the Twin Arrows Trading Post.  Today, not only is the place largely covered with graffiti, but only one of the arrows remains.  In this pic, you can still see the base where the other arrow once was.

Jerome, Arizona

As I did 10 years ago, I drove from Sedona over to Jerome, this time after visiting Tuzigoot National Monument.  As then, I got some food at the Haunted Hamburger restaurant.  Unlike then, I took some pictures.  Since the town is built on a hillside, I had to climb some stairs from the parking lot.  I took a shot looking up, but it's the worst focused one so far on my current trip.  Even so, you can see the big initial "J" way up on the hill.

Tuzigoot

Today I visited the pueblo ruin Tuzigoot, located on a hill about 20 miles west of Sedona, and which is a national monument.  Like other sites I've recently seen, it was built by the Sinagua people.  A short walkway leads uphill and southward from the visitor center and to the remains of a relatively small building that appears to have had seven rooms.

Elden Pueblo

Elden Pueblo is an archaeological site just north of Flagstaff, AZ along U.S. highway 89.  Like the cliff dwellings and other structures at Walnut Canyon, it was built by people of the Sinagua Culture.  The place has a parking lot and a metal box containing a book in which visitors are asked to sign their names.  A trail leads visitors from the parking lot to the remains of old buildings.  Here's one with a tree growing on the inside.

Walnut Canyon

Walnut Canyon is a canyon about seven miles east of Flagstaff, AZ and the featured attraction of its namesake national monument.  As far as I can tell, there's no river or creek flowing through its bottom.  Maybe it gets some water if a rainfall produces a flash flood.  From the visitor center, the Island Trail leads down to and around a raised rock formation on the north side of the canyon, on which people of the Sinagua Culture built cliff dwellings.  As you walk down, you get to see views like this, looking west.

Oak Creek Canyon Viewpoint

As I did 10 years ago, I drove northward from Sedona, AZ and stopped at Oak Creek Vista along state highway 89A.  After walking from the parking lot, I took this photo looking westward, which shows some of the highway as it winds up a hill.

Back To Sedona

As you can tell from the title, my previously undisclosed location is Sedona, Arizona.  I was here almost 10 years ago, which you can read about (and look at the pictures) in this blog's archive for November 2014.  As then, it's a great place to go hiking, but since it's September, the temperature is definitely warmer this time (but a dry heat, as the saying goes).  Some trails end at a road near where I'm staying, so I wandered on over and put my big feet to the ground.  Looking northward, here's what I saw.