Grand Canyon
Sheila & Joyce @ entrance of Grand Canyon
Bottom of Glen Canyon Dam
Glen Canyon Dam
Apple Valley (no apple trees did we see!) coloful mountains along the way
9-18-10 Sheila's Comments:
Wow 28 years ago I was giving birth to my youngest son Michael and now today I am visiting the Grand Canyon. We started the day by calling Michael and singing Happy Birthday but of course he didn't answer so we sang to his voice mail.
We drove from Zion Canyon, UT to Grand Canyon, AZ about 300 miles today and it seemed like a really long trip. We drove on scenic Hwy 89 around the north and east side of the canyon down to the south entrance. On the drive to 89 we had a nice stretch of flat land here and there with really colorful mountains, red, white and brown. We went through some area named Apple Valley but we didn't see any apple trees as a matter of fact there are hardly any trees anywhere out west. Joyce noticed the old wooden power lines along the roadside and said we haven't seen any of those in a while.
On Hwy 89 we went through the Vermilion Cliffs and through antelope pass and along side the road were Indians selling their arts and crafts everywhere. Robbie and I had stopped and bought some jewelry from an old Indian lady there several years ago but at that time there was only that one Indian lady. Today there was a whole tribe of Indians everywhere. When we stopped at the top of the cliff you could see for miles and the Indian lady we purchased items from told us you could see the San Francisco peaks from that point. Now we are in UT which is a really long ways from California so image seeing the San Francisco peaks from there must have been about 500 miles maybe! I bought presents for the children and grandchildren and we headed on our way.
Once we made it into Arizona the time changed and we were now 3 hours behind the east coast because Arizona does not observe daylight savings time but we were still in the Mountain timezone but standard instead of daylight. We were traveling through the Navajo Indian reservation and they do observe daylight savings time so it was confusing as to what time it really was because it keep changing on us.
We drove over the Glen Canyon dam which was unbelievable - not as big as the Hoover Dam but very impressive! We saw a lizard sunning on a rock and got some pictures and headed forward.
We paid $2.00 to enter into a scenic overlook that the Navajo Indians said was the starting point of the Grand Canyon they called the Little Colorado River Gorge. It was nice but they need some money to fix up the parking area and the trail way to see over the cliffs.
Around 5:24pm mountain standard time we finally arrived at the Grand Canyon entrance!!!! We made it! When Joyce first saw the canyon she started crying because she said she never thought she would get here. She also was crying because she wished Randy was with her, I told her he was with her in her heart and that he was probably flying around above us making sure we didn't drive off the cliff like Thelma and Louise.
There are a lot of trees around the park roadside but they all seem to be short and drawfed in size compared to our trees at home. We drove up to the Desert View scenic overlook and the Watch Tower and got out and got our first pictures and good view of the Grand Canyon. Michael called me and I dropped my phone and thought I had broke it but when I put it back together it worked fine. We went up in the Watch Tower which is made of old stones and inside is a gift shop on the bottom and up in the tower are painting on the wall that the Indians did which were really lovely.
We stopped several more times driving along the southeast of the canyon and finally made it to our new campsite for the night. We stayed at the Grand Canyon Camper Village about 6 miles south of the entrance. We have stayed at a different campsite every night except when we were stuck in Cody, WY due to snow. The weather was great not too hot today when we arrived at the campsite so I walked Roxy for a while and then we cooked and went to bed.
Oh what a wonderful feeling, oh what a wonderful day traveling through the USA!
Wow 28 years ago I was giving birth to my youngest son Michael and now today I am visiting the Grand Canyon. We started the day by calling Michael and singing Happy Birthday but of course he didn't answer so we sang to his voice mail.
We drove from Zion Canyon, UT to Grand Canyon, AZ about 300 miles today and it seemed like a really long trip. We drove on scenic Hwy 89 around the north and east side of the canyon down to the south entrance. On the drive to 89 we had a nice stretch of flat land here and there with really colorful mountains, red, white and brown. We went through some area named Apple Valley but we didn't see any apple trees as a matter of fact there are hardly any trees anywhere out west. Joyce noticed the old wooden power lines along the roadside and said we haven't seen any of those in a while.
On Hwy 89 we went through the Vermilion Cliffs and through antelope pass and along side the road were Indians selling their arts and crafts everywhere. Robbie and I had stopped and bought some jewelry from an old Indian lady there several years ago but at that time there was only that one Indian lady. Today there was a whole tribe of Indians everywhere. When we stopped at the top of the cliff you could see for miles and the Indian lady we purchased items from told us you could see the San Francisco peaks from that point. Now we are in UT which is a really long ways from California so image seeing the San Francisco peaks from there must have been about 500 miles maybe! I bought presents for the children and grandchildren and we headed on our way.
Once we made it into Arizona the time changed and we were now 3 hours behind the east coast because Arizona does not observe daylight savings time but we were still in the Mountain timezone but standard instead of daylight. We were traveling through the Navajo Indian reservation and they do observe daylight savings time so it was confusing as to what time it really was because it keep changing on us.
We drove over the Glen Canyon dam which was unbelievable - not as big as the Hoover Dam but very impressive! We saw a lizard sunning on a rock and got some pictures and headed forward.
We paid $2.00 to enter into a scenic overlook that the Navajo Indians said was the starting point of the Grand Canyon they called the Little Colorado River Gorge. It was nice but they need some money to fix up the parking area and the trail way to see over the cliffs.
Around 5:24pm mountain standard time we finally arrived at the Grand Canyon entrance!!!! We made it! When Joyce first saw the canyon she started crying because she said she never thought she would get here. She also was crying because she wished Randy was with her, I told her he was with her in her heart and that he was probably flying around above us making sure we didn't drive off the cliff like Thelma and Louise.
There are a lot of trees around the park roadside but they all seem to be short and drawfed in size compared to our trees at home. We drove up to the Desert View scenic overlook and the Watch Tower and got out and got our first pictures and good view of the Grand Canyon. Michael called me and I dropped my phone and thought I had broke it but when I put it back together it worked fine. We went up in the Watch Tower which is made of old stones and inside is a gift shop on the bottom and up in the tower are painting on the wall that the Indians did which were really lovely.
We stopped several more times driving along the southeast of the canyon and finally made it to our new campsite for the night. We stayed at the Grand Canyon Camper Village about 6 miles south of the entrance. We have stayed at a different campsite every night except when we were stuck in Cody, WY due to snow. The weather was great not too hot today when we arrived at the campsite so I walked Roxy for a while and then we cooked and went to bed.
Oh what a wonderful feeling, oh what a wonderful day traveling through the USA!
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