This 2018 photo shows the town of Sedona, Arizona, seen from the Airport Mesa Loop Trail. From left to right are Thunder Mountain, Sugar Loaf and Coffee Pot Rock. The sleepy Arizona town of Sedona has ...

Laurie Gough is the author of "Kite Strings of the Southern Cross: A Woman's Travel Odyssey" (Travelers' Tales, 1999). She lives in Ontario, Canada My first impression of Sedona was that this peculiar ...

On a clear spring day, my mother and I hiked an unmarked spur trail to Subway Cave, in Boynton Canyon, near Sedona, Arizona. As we scrambled up a cliff to the cave’s opening, we heard a little boy ask ...

Something hijacked my imagination when I was planning our recent trip to Sedona and the Grand Canyon. Vortexes. Vortexes draw New Age practioners like moths seeking the light. These areas scattered ...

Western Bureau Chief for Courthouse News Service since 2014. San Francisco Federal Reporter and Northern California Bureau Chief from 2006 to 2014. Passionate about photography, camping and history.

SEDONA, Ariz. – I suppose I shouldn’t have taken the parking attendant’s advice so literally. “You’ll know it when you feel it,” he had told me when I asked where I’d find the vortex. I had traveled ...