ROAD TO SEDONA: Page to Kanab

Have you ever heard of Kanab, Utah ? If you haven't, just listen up.

After leaving Page and driving for a few hours across the barren but beautiful landscape of North Arizona and Southern Utah, it was time for a lunch stop, and that is how we discovered Kanab.

Kanub is an idyllic small western town (population 4,500) nestled amid the most spectacular red cliffs and mountains, constantly changing from vermilion, to maroon, to pink, in response to the ever changing play of light. At an elevation of 5,000 feet, the clear air has an exhilarating scent of sage and cedar. But that is not all.

Kanub is called "Little Hollyhood", because in this little town, more than 90 feature length films were made, as well as several hundred TV shows. Have you heard of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", "How the West Was Won", "MacKenna's Gold" "The Outlaw Josey Wales", the series "Have Gun Will Travel", and many "Rat Pack" movies, to mention just a few.

The "Little Hollywood" Museum in the town features many of the sets and props, such as jails, saloons, banks, the "OK Corral" and "Boot Hill", as well as an abundance of nostalgic memorabilia to delight the movie buff. But that is not all.

Southern Utah is a "Happy Hunting Ground" for students of history, archaelogy and anthropology. The rock formations are constantly unfolding the mysteries of the origin of life on Planet Earth.

Can it get any better ?