Sedona is where the nutcases go after they graduate from college or retire, but the college kids with Daddy’s cash are all in Flag. The new age shops, the vegetarian cafes, and the organic artisian pizza joints tend to be busting at the seams with customers. The shopkeepers will literally bow to you when you come in and say stuff like, “Namaste” or “Goddess’ blessings upon you.” It’s a trip. Don’t know that they’re quite so over the top now as they were ten years ago... but they make for great characters in a story.
LOL! I didn’t know that about Flagstaff! We never really went into town there, we just went one evening to go to the Lowell Observatory, and we drove by there once, going out to Meteor Crater. But you’re right, the New Age crowd in Sedona is a little older. Caters to the demographic, I guess; older, wealthier folks who can afford to buy a house there!