Leveraging our Reciprocal Passes, and 2 Breweries

 Flagstaff, AZ

 Modern Indigenous Art

Using our Reciprocal Passes

Today we decided to use our Reciprocal Museum Pass and our Reciprocal Botanical Gardens Pass but first, breakfast!

We headed to our first diner breakfast since before Covid.  We enjoyed Hash Browns, Eggs, Sausage, Biscuits, and Chicken Fried Steak at Over Easy Flagstaff.  We each got a greasy spoon breakfast and loved it!  Francis was fine with it too.

"Are you going to give me food?"

As seen on The Food Network

2 of my favorite things, Coffee and Francis.

Breakfast and Lunch!

After breakfast we took our Botanical Gardens Reciprocal Pass that we got at Descanso Gardens and went to the Arboretum at Flagstaff.  It was the first Botanical Gardens that we have been to that allow dogs, for a $3 fee.  We paid the fee and entered.  It is a really great native gardens with a lot of birds.

We took a dirt road to the entrance.

We saw the Hunt Bumblebee, it was really cool.

Me and Francis

The gardens were really cool

Donna in the Green House

You could buy this art

Me and my Francis!

After the botanical gardens, Francis was exhausted so we dropped him off and used our NARM pass to go to The Museum of Northern Arizona. The museum's focus was on the First Peoples of Arizona.  We also learned a lot about the Colorado Plateau.  

The Sign out front

Some Public Art, we didn't even have to pay to see this!

First People's Arts and Crafts

I liked this cool skateboard

These dolls represent different supernatural entities just like the Japanese Yōkai

They featured First People's Modern Art by Baje Whitethorne Sr.

More art by Baje Whitethorne Sr.

I really liked this one!

And this one

This was the earliest piece by Baje Whitethorne Sr.

They had First People's Art inspired by Star Wars.  Star Wars, the movie, ahs been translated to Navajo

Boba Fett!  Where?

Sparky Fingers!

The comedic Duo of R2D2 and C3PO

Lea

Darth Vader

Ewoks playing both sides

Seagulls, stop it now! (if you don't get the reference, do click!)

The Force is Strong with her

And me

Beaded Star Wars Figures

Dinos

They also had nice gardens in the center of the building

Later in the afternoon we took a bus (the Mountain Line) to downtown Flagstaff.  We visited Mother Road Brewing, a tribute to Route 66 and Dark Skies Brewing.  Dark Skies had some really great beers.

Our bus stop.

We were half the riders

Empty Bus

They ran Hybrids

Mother Road Brewing Co

The Brewing Facility 

We had 10oz pours so we could try more styles

They used old maps to make light fixures

Neon!

Tots, Sliders, and Pork Rinds.  We shared

Dark Sky Entrance

DSB Beer This way!

I am content in a brewery

An important PSA

That's one small sip for a man, one giant sip for man kind.

After enjoying downtown Flagstaff, we took the bus back.  It was a great day in a great city.  Tomorrow we head into no cell service so I might not be posting until we get to Grand Junction on the 25th.  

Cutting through the park to the bus stop

All aboard! 

I like the Mountain Lion being the mascot of the Mountain Line

Want a job?

We were patrons. 

Check out yesterday here.