Tuesday, April 14, 2015

The Grand Canyon

I expected this to be the highlight of our trip.     We  stayed  at Canyon motel and rv Park,  Williams AZ .    This town is the gait to the Grand Canyon.   It is a one hour drive to the Canyon.   We drove up in the morning,  stopping at a couple  tourist stores so I could  shop for my postcards.    We arrived  at  the  park.   We paid for  our one week pass.    We went in and took  a  right to  the  trail we would  hike,  the South Kaibab  trail.    We headed to the trail.    I  forgot my cell phone in the bathroom.   Darn,  I had to  run  back and luckily it was still there.    We headed down the trail.    Boy  this was easy.    It was bright red dirt and had many switch backs.    It was pretty busy.  Especially since it is off season.   There was a steady stream of people  hiking.    Too many  people.   There are no trees  and  no privacy.    We continued down the trail reaching   ooh aah point    I decided we would  go  further  in so as to get away from the people.    We continued to the next stop,  Cedar Ridge .    This is where the mules are that some people  pay to ride.    There is no water available  here.    There are bathrooms.    We ate our picnic  lunch overlooking the Canyon.    Then we headed up.  Uggh!  We are  so out of  shape.    But,  we did  it!!  Yeah!!!   We had no choice  once we were  in.    The weather  couldn't  have been  better.    Partly  cloudy  and  70 degrees.    It felt great! 

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