Since people are starting to look at this more as I mentioned it in our Christmas letter, I noticed I completely forgot to put an entry about our trip the Grand Canyon.
We drove over on Saturday, leaving at 6 AM and driving up I-15 to I-40. It was a relatively easy trip, making it to Kingman, AZ by lunch time. We hit some amazing rain storms through the mountains towards Williams, AZ. Williams was a neat little town that we stopped for coffee at. There was a significant line to enter, even the dedicated line for passholders. It took about 30 minutes to enter the park. We camped, and then hiked over to the rim for a look before heading back to eat dinner. It was a pretty good hike to the canyon rim, since it was about a mile just to leave the huge campground!
We hiked the rim towards the Bright Angel Trail the next day. Dogs are allowed along the rim, so we never went far down (although we went a little down to take a picture). We had deer run through the campground in the morning. The fire danger had lowered enough to allow us to have a campfire, but not all campers knew (we got berated by one, who I don't know if they believed me when I said it was ok).
The next day, we hiked the opposite direction and then drove to the Watchtower and back. Rasila also wanted to see the IMAX film, which she watched while Ziwi and I bought her some Indian earrings.
We took the scenic route back, driving down through Flagstaff, Sedona, and Jerome on the way to the I-10. It seemed like a good choice as the scenery was great and the traffic light. I always dread the I-40/I-15 merge at Barstow which we did sit through on the way back from the Great Basin.
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