From rags to riches

Grocery shopping is vastly different in Sedona, than Tonto Basin.  In Tonto Basin the wine selection is similar to what you would find under a bridge in a big city bum encampment.  The Sedona Safeway has a whole refrigerated row of wine bottles in the $40 to $100 range.  Back in bumville the model airplane runway was the parking lot at the boat ramp.  Here at our new site there is a model airport that very much resembles a real one.  It has windsocks, solar charging stations, it's own nice parking lot, covered areas for spectators, and special tables for the participants to work their planes.  Also someone usually shows up with donuts.

The Windy Hill section of Lake Roosevelt had a nice selection of bums, but in Sedona great care has been exercised to make sure the less desirable cannot pollute the landscape. Rich and crazy is welcome of course, and there are plenty of them looking at UFO's, and experiencing the various vortexes.  No one lives near Sedona except someone who's daddy dumped some gold dust on them, or the daddy himself.  All the people that cut the grass, and clean the restrooms commute from Cottonwood the poor neighbor town to the south.  Anywhere in the countryside around town you have to pay to park and use the trails.  This also helps keep the undesirables in check.

Pink jeeps are the curse of the area.  The jeeps give tourist a rugged ride on the back roads.  The damn things stir up dust constantly, and create a mess out where we are camped. You have to get far enough from the road to avoid them.  As if that were not enough, there is a whole additional culture of the four wheeled ATV's that also make sure the dust does not settle.

When acute prosperity rains down on your town life is good and everything is immaculately landscaped.  Strict building codes make sure eyesores don't exist and everything is done to perfection.  Back in the land of Tonto Basin the favorite treatment for the yard is chain link fence with junk trimmings.  Zoning in Tonto Basin consist of an almost broke zone, and a totally broke zone.  In Sedona, the zones are rich and extremely rich.

Camped a few miles south of prosperity in the wilderness it is possible some of the prosperity will drift down on us from Sedona and we might wake up wealthy some morning.  However the reality is different. When you go for groceries or anything else in Sedona any prosperity you have will be sucked right out of you.

One of the big draws of Sedona are the excellent trails for The Commander's new bike.  So we shall live in the shadow of the one percent and ride bikes for the next week.