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Beat the Heat on Your Sedona Summer Vacation
It's not too hot in northern Arizona for outdoor lovers, not if you know where to go and what to do to beat the heat.Cool Off Like a Cave Man. Arizona has many caves where temps remain the same as the night air. Thunder Mountain and Sycamore Canyon b...
Celebrate with Sedona Independent Artists at Free July 4th Event
Experience the fireworks generated by independent artists and performers at the Sedona Showcase on Independence Day. Get there early if you want a table--turnout is heavy at these free, community events. An estimated 250 people attended the last sho...
Hottest Trends in Weddings--Eco Consciousness Rings A Bell
Take 2.5 million US weddings a year, add half a million commitment ceremonies and multiply it by an average of 150 guests at each event, and you end up with overflowing landfills and toxins soaking into the water supply, our skin, and Mother Earth....
Summer Savings on Holiday Homes & Vacation Rentals
1. Southern Arizona Day Trips. 2. Most Romantic Green Vacations. 3. Save up to 50% percent off vacation rentals. Sedona, Arizona healthy living vacation rental, $699 the last week of July. St. Augustine, Florida $85 a night in June. Some restriction...
Affordable Travel - 5 Ways To Save On Your Next Vacation
Who isn't trying to save money these days?. But it's time for summer vacation! Time to immerse yourself in the local life of a new place or just take a break at the beach. It may be just what you need to reduce stress.Fortunately, if you want to save...
Eco Weddings Gifts That Celebrate Love Not Stuff
When Gary Myer and Dana Gail celebrated their honeymoon at Casita Colibri, a vacation rental in Sedona, Az their wedding was part of one of the hottest trends on the planet, green weddings.In addition to going easy on mother nature and themselves by ...
Sweetness In Sedona--Hummingbirds at Our Vacation Rental
An amazing miracle happened at my Sedona vacation rental Casita Colibri, two Black-Chinned Hummingbirds hatched this week. The nest is smaller than half an eggshell. The babies looked like two, minuscule black peas.You'll notice how small even the mo...
Savings for Summer--Deals at Healthy Vacation Rental Homes
Sun and Surf in Historic St. Augustine just $49.95 a night June -Sept 2009. Minimum stay and other exclusions may apply. Email for details.Casita Colibri, Arizona returning guests get 10% off vacation rental rates. Holidays excluded. Don't wait, all ...
Swine Flu Effects Travel to Vacation Rentals
In recent weeks, most of us have become familiar with the strain of flu found in pigs that has mutated to be able to infect humans. Swine Flu cases have been confirmed in the US, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, the UK, and Spain. For travelers concerned...
Bobcat Wanders into Sedona Area Bar-Just Looking for a Bloody Mary
Ottawa Family Catches Red Rock Fever (Freebie Alert!)
Vacation rental guest, Jennifer Chandler writes about her recent trip to Sedona. Jennifer has devoted her life to providing a low or no-toxin environment for her family. This commitment to healthy living is a legacy she gets from her mom, Jane Chandl...
Five Tips for Nurturing Trips
Travel practices tested enough to hold up to a deep greenie’s scrutiny and nurturing enough to hold up to a comfort-seeker’s good taste need to go beyond superficial suggestions. For me, they better keep green on the planet and in my wallet.Trave...
Vacation Rental Travel Deals
1/1 Beach front, Delray Beach, FL $799 March 14-21. Email us for details.Vacation Home Owners: Want to see your rate specials here? We post deals on healthy vacation homes for FREE. Email us the details and we'll include them in the monthly postings...
Red Hot Rate Lovers: February Vacation Rental Deals
SEDONA Studio for $250 a week in March! Special, in -own location. No pets, no smoking. Rare opportunity. Email Dana for details.Win a Free Weekend in Sunny Florida if you quit smoking. Be our guest on the waterfront in St. Augustine, FL just minutes...
U.S Eco Travel
When people think of traveling in the United States, images of the Vegas strip, Hollywood glitz, and castles of Disneyland, and NY City come to mind. But there is more to offer than Rodeo Drive and Mickey Mouse and even more ways to save money and th...
51 Eco Conscious Things to Do Around Sedona
Search for meaning and avoid the mainstream with the off-the-beaten path activities that I write about on this blog. Click here to subscribe to new posts. No paid advertising, no corporate stores, no commercial tours. Ride Sedona Roadrunner the envir...
Our Top Tips of 2008
The top articles on this blog last year (other than the rate specials which get lots of readers)...Hike West Fork in Sedona Secret Florida: Laid Back RomanceGuilt and Greenwashing Top Ten Things Vacation Home Owners (and Managers) Won't Tell YouThe M...
Grand Canyon Visitor Center Goes Solar
A system including 84 solar panels was donated to the Park Service to provide education and power. Another interesting thing to do on your Sedona vacation. Read more here ...
Vacation Rental Travel Deals ~ Free Stuff, Super Bowl and More
2009 Red Hot Rate Specials for FREE stuff. Going toxin-free, plastic-free, oil-free, and smoke-free can get you rent free, jeep rides, workshops along with good health in 2009 when you enter our health promotions. Subscribe to this blog by email or ...
Bloomin' Wonderful Resolutions-- Dana's Five W's
What's your green resolution? The holidays brought a sea of appliances, electronics, packaging, and gift cards into my relatives homes and left me awash with mild shock about how my world is filled with plastic--even if I do carry my own shopping bag...
Eco Luxury Living Is All About Time, Not Stuff
Recent guests, Pat and Steve Ridgeway enjoying their Arizona vacation. ...
Red Hot Rates for the Holidays
$599 includes tax and cleaning Sedona, AZ, Dec 1. Email for details.SAVE $460 Delray Beach, the Village by the Sea. Jan 3-10, 2009. One bedroom unit with kitchen for less than a hotel. Delray is rated a highly walkable town. Weekly resort rate is $...
Yellow Aspens
This stand of aspens may be found opposite the trail for West Fork in Oak Creek, Sedona on the Thomas Point Trail. Park on the north-bound side of 89-A just before the entrance to the lot at West Fork at the fire road and pick up the trail which par...
Best Hike for Fall Colors: West Fork at Oak Creek, Sedona
A few miles north of Uptown Sedona lies the national treasure of Oak Creek Canyon. A short walk through an ancient orchard and you're in a forested canyon with a year-round, meandering creek.I like to hike West Fork once a season, as the eroded cany...
Hummingbirds Headed South
We love hummingbirds, especially the ones that fly around Sedona. That's why we call our house, "Casita Colibri," Little House of the Hummingbirds.Each fall thousands of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds migrate from Canada through Mississippi to their wint...
Beat the Heat in Sedona: What to do in August
It's not too hot in northern Arizona for outdoor lovers, not if you know where to go and what to do to beat the heat.Cool Off Like a Cave Man. Arizona has many caves like the one above where temps often stay the same as the previous night's cool air...
