Richard & Sylvia's RV Adventures

Day 29 - Friday, March 30, 2007

Flagstaff to the Grand Canyon National Park

As the weather service had predicted, we woke this morning to 2 plus inches of snow all over the place.  This certainly dispelled our ideas of what we expected from a place like Arizona.  We’ve always pictured this place as a hot place… at least a warm place where people go for the winter.  Here it is almost spring and we’ve got snow outside.  On the plus side, the sky was perfectly clear and a beautiful blue this morning.

We took our time getting around this morning.  Did a little housekeeping things, wrote some cards and planned our day trip to the Grand Canyon.  We spoke to some other people in the campground who told us that if they had it to do over they would have taken Hwy 89 north out of Flagstaff and drive the rim road from East to West stopping at the various points along the way.  So taking their advice we left Flagstaff around 11:30 a.m. heading up the red route on the map for the Canyon. It was long drive across a lot of barren land to get to the turnoff to the Canyon.  After turning off we head up and came to the Little Colorado River Tribal Park run by the Navajo Nation.  This was our first stop to look at a most awesome site that we have ever seen. 

 Had to do a little shopping for some of the Navajo crafts.  They had such beautiful jewelry and pottery.

 Drove on and stopped at the Desert View and Moran Point just inside the park.

The next point we stopped at was:   The sites here as before were really fantastic; pictures really do not do this scenery justice.

At the south entrance to the park we found they place really crowded with people from all over the world.  The crowds were amazing at this time of the year; can’t imagine what it must be like in the summer after school is out.

I took a series of 4 photos by panning on a tripod to put them together to get a panoramic shot.

The Grand Canyon… What a wonder of the world… and a must see place!!!!!

On a general note the Crows around here seem to be the size of Chickens, everytime one head my direction my first impulse is to take cover!  What are they eating?

We also noted many hitchikers with backbacks of all ages.  This is truly a land for the outdoor person.  We’ve encountered many families on bikes, and on serious hikes. I’m impressed.

posted by Richard @ 12:48 AM