I've Been To Flagstaff, Arizona Blog

Spent the night in Flagstaff late May '06 enroute to points further west and found the community and surrounding area to be beautiful and very interesting. Good overnight accommodations and an outstanding Mexican dinner at an establishment on Milton Rd. Wish we had had more time to spend checking out the community and we'll likely return for a longer visit.
 

Spent four nights in Flag for a recruiting fair at NAU in April 2007. Stayed at the Weatherford Hotel to really get the spirit of the town. It was an excellent choice. The hotel is a step back into the past and the service is contemporary 4star!! Enjoyed meals in the hotels restaurant and drinks in the Zane Grey ballroom/bar. The weather was so nice we were able to enjoy the balcony, too!
Other restaurants we enjoyed were Josephine's (WOW!), Oasis, Thai, BLack Bean. All were excellent, but Josephine's was by far the BEST!
LOVED the downtown for eating and shopping. Kudos to Flag for working hard to restore and make the historic downtown a place for EVERYONE to enjoy. We will be back.
 

I adore Flagstaff. My husband and I would live here if we could; can't wait to come back again and hope to soon!
 

My husband and I adore Flagstaff~~~we would relocate here if we could. Can't wait to visit again and take in all the lovely surroundings.
 

Glad to see there are good experiences visiting Flag. I lived there and loved the land and the people but had to close my business and leave because the cost of living is getting way too high. This is sad because it doesn't have to be that way. I miss Flag terribly but can't find a way to afford its rediculously rising cost of living. :(
 

I LIVED THERE FROM 1994-1998 AND LOVED IT. DIVORCED AND MOVED BACK TO ILLINOIS. MISS THE BEAUTY AND THE LAID BACK WAYS. TOO MUCH FUN FOR ONE PLACE, ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE IN GOOD HEALTH AND CAN ENJOY THE HIKING, WALKING, SIGHTSEEING AND PLAIN LIVING IN BEAUTIFUL SURROUNDINGS 24-7. MISS IT BUT GLAD I MOVED BACK.
SUSAN GRAY
 

I don't know why this memory just popped in my head at this hour of the night, only then it matches exactly the moment in time five years ago that I began my last professional radio journey.

The day after Christmas, 2002, I was invited to Flagstaff, Arizona to interview for a position with three radio stations there.

Wanting to be there by noon and not knowing the elements I would run into (like the snow and fog for a 40 smile stretch between Kayenta and Tuba City, Arizona, I decided to make an early start of it, and I left town at 4:00 am that morning.

So at 3:30 am exactly five years ago I was jacking myself up with as much coffee as I could hoping to be in Monument Valley by sunrise



I have always loved the red rock spires in that area and it had been a while since I had seen them, but something about seeing them at daybreak on a frosty winter's morning was in a word, surreal.

As my entire existence in Arizona seems to me now, all these years later.

I interviewed at the radio station which was located just behind the Grand Canyon Cafe in a little strip center downtown right off Historic Route 66.

Very cool!!

The weekend I was there just happened to coincide with the opening of ski season at the Arizona Snowbowl located on the slopes of the nearby San Francisco Peaks.

Unlike here in Colorado, where skiing is a given, even on the smallest most out of the way mountain, it was never a guarantee in Northern Arizona, so it was hectic at best trying to drive around town with all the out of town visitors.

Feeling good about my chances after the interview, I went and found the house that I would hope to be living in, which was a cozy little place in the eastern part of the town with an awesome back yard that Dakota adored.

As it turned out, I did get the job, and I moved to Arizona about three weeks later to that very same house that I would call home for the next 20 months, before returning to Colorado in August 2004.

As it turns out, that job in radio was my last in a professional broadcasting environment and which indirectly led to me creating my internet based station Totally 80's.

Again, don't ask my how or why I remembered that, just now. I haven't thought about Flagstaff in forever especially since my best friend from there now lives here in Colorado, but this Moment In Time seems forever etched in my memory for the day after Christmas.

Back to bed now... see if I can't get a couple more hours before the alarm rings and it's back to work.