Monday, April 19, 2010

Petrified Forest Route

Todays side trip is about 260 miles round trip to the Petrified Forest National Park. Like yesterday we will do this in the "toad" (the pick up truck we tow) and leave Gizmo and Norv here at the KOA. Faster and cheaper and since the toad is a 4WD we can go places the coach could never dream of going.
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Sunday, April 18, 2010

Wupatki Pueblo





We also visited the Wupatki National Monument. These pictures are of two different ruins only a couple of miles from each other. These ruins were occupied about 1100.

Sunset Crater





Today (Sunday) we visited the Sunset Crater area northeast of Flagstaff. Lots of lava flows and vent tubes etc. These picture were taken at about 7000 feet.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Grand Canyon Video

Music, "It's a Wonderful World," by IZ Kamakawiwo ʻ ole

The Grand Canyon


We took so many pictures yesterday and so many of them are so good that picking one to post here was difficult. I chose this one because from a sign at this spot I can tell you that the far side of the canyon you can see on the left of this picture (the north rim) is 8.25 miles away. Perhaps that gives you some idea of the vastness of this place. To see a slideshow of all the pictures we took look at this link:
This takes a minute or two to buffer on your computer depending on the speed of your connection and the pictures are a little grainy but you'll get the idea.
This is my third trip here in my adult life and it is still difficult to come up with words to describe the Grand Canyon. I am going to try and make a short slide show of more of the pictures and Arlyene is working on some video so hopefully we will have more to share. In the mean time just wanted to make a quick post to say all is well and we had a near perfect day for our visit to the canyon yesterday. Today is a "down day" since we really have not had one since we left Seattle. We will do some catch up on the computers, I have some work, work to do and we may work in a walk to downtown Williams, which I think has changed little since the pre Interstate 40 days when Route 66 was the main highway. It still goes through the middle of town and it still looks like 1950 except for a new Safeway.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Arrived at Williams Arizona







We arrived at the Canyon Gateway RV Park this afternoon. Tomorrow we will visit the Grand Canyon.

Today's Planned Route

This is today's route from Las Vegas to Williams, AZ where we will hopefully get some great pictures to post here. This is about a 5 to 5 1/2 hour drive with stops, about 240 miles. We have to drive via Laughlin because we can not cross over Hoover Dam so we have to go a little out of our way. They are building a bridge near the dam which will make it easier but that is not scheduled to be completed until next year.

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