So I've been offline for a week to celebrate one year of being married (yay!) with a trip to the Grand Canyon, Flagstaff, Sedona, and Phoenix. What a whirlwind week. We had to pack for both freezing and sweltering weather -- it got down to 18 degrees at night in Flagstaff and up to 89 degrees in Phoenix. The Grand Canyon was awesome, of course!
My favorite lesser-known things on the trip?
Bookmans in Flagstaff. 
They're an independent book store that's actually a chain around Arizona (Flagstaff, Phoenix, Mesa, Tucson), and they've got a HUGE selection. It's the nicest used book store I've ever been to, and I wish Los Angeles had one! Bookmans in Phoenix even has a community room with tons going on - from book clubs to free yoga classes to Dungeons & Dragons marathons (with new folks welcome). The good news is it's only 5 hours away from West LA. ;-)
The Sugar Bowl ice cream parlor in Scottsdale. Their malts are amazing, their sundaes divine, and best of all, it's in an old-school sit-down soda shoppe straight out of the 1950s, with pink and white decor everywhere. The staff are as sweet as their confections, and they've now added on a gift shop. If you've seen the Family Circus cartoon family going to an ice cream parlor, they are going to the Sugar Bowl in Scottsdale.
Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff has a Wednesday night astronomy discussion and offers three telescopes (small, medium, and large) to show you the best of the night sky for just $4 with your AAA discount. The lack of light pollution shows even the naked eye far more constellations than LA, and an inexpensive 6" lens telescope that showed many distant star clusters was just $290 if you wanted to take one home.
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