Chelsea Grimm, 32, left San Diego on a cross-country road trip in early autumn 2023, bound ultimately for a wedding in Connecticut. Traveling in a white Ford Escape with her pet bearded dragon Roxy, she decided partway through the trip to skip the wedding and camp in Arizona before returning to California. Chelsea spoke with her parents a few days into the trip, saying the solo journey was more taxing than expected and that she might be without cell service.

She was last seen on September 30, 2023, near Ash Fork, Arizona; a woodcutter encountered her on a forest service road and she said she was taking photographs. Before that, she had appeared disoriented at a Seligman motel where she tried to pay with euros and told a Williams officer she had been emotional while photographing a cemetery. On October 5 her locked Ford Escape was found on Forest Service Road 6 in the Kaibab National Forest with two flat tires. The camera remained inside, but her wallet, phone, sleeping bag and Roxy were missing. Extensive search and rescue efforts by the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office have not located her.

Does anyone have information about Chelsea’s movements around Ash Fork or sightings of a white Ford Escape or a bearded dragon in late September or early October 2023?