Eve was feeling much, much better this morning so we headed for the Grand Canyon. The first attraction of the day was driving over Hoover Dam. They were doing random security checks before you drover over the dam. We were waved through. I guess we look remarkably unsuspicious! That put us in Arizona, our 13th state of the trip. At first it looked a lot like Nevada then suddenly we started seeing a lot more green vegetation - but still really hot. Finally we arrived at Grand Canyon National Park and from the entrance it was only about 4 or 5 miles to the Yavapai Lodge, our home for the night. That was quite different than Yellowstone where it was about 60 miles from the park entrance. By this time it was getting a bit late and we had not really planned our visit here. There are three free shuttle bus routes (many of the buses run on natural gas) that take you to various points in the parks. We caught a bus that took us to Yavapai Observation Point. When we first reached the rim of the canyon we were all just totally blown away at the immensity and the beauty of it all. We walked along the rim to several observation points and eventually settled on one to sit down and watch the sunset. After that we caught the bus back to the hotel, had a snack at the Yavapai Lodge cafeteria, and walked back to the lodge in the dark. A little bit tricky but we made it OK. Apologies to those of you who have been following the blog day by day; I've fallen behind a bit and an just catching up Saturday evening here in Albuquerque.
Saturday, June 16, 2007
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