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Hi all. I had hoped to post more photos yesterday and today, but we’ve had some pretty poor wireless access at the hotels. We really are out in some remote areas, so it’s not hard to imagine. We’ll be in Flagstaff tomorrow night, so I should be able to get something going there.

We had an exceptional morning today, watching the sunrise over the canyon. I’ve experienced it twice before, but it never gets old. In the early morning around the rim of the canyon, the air is cold. This morning it was around 40 deg. F. So you have to dress warm. The wind is also higher around the edge of the canyon. Their are so many local or micro climates in action near the rim that you can’t just rely on how thing are outside the hotel room.

After the sunrise, we had breakfast and packed up to head out toward the Four Corners Monument. This is more of a stop than anything else, but we though Martin would enjoy stepping on 4 states at one time (Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah). Afterwards we drove through lower Utah to headed toward Monument Valley. That I have to say is an awesome site. The red rock formations are even larger than I expected. And of course, standing in those placed that we’ve all seen in various movies…. well they just seemed unreal. Tomorrow we head to Flagstaff for a hopefully more relaxed day. We put a lot of miles in today.

Look for more photos after tomorrow night.

Bill

In the distance you can see Plateau Point from the Bright Angel Trail. I’m posting from there right now.

Just getting started here at the Grand Canyon Resort Hotel.    I woke up at 5 am.   Now waiting for Cathy and Martin to show up for breakfast while I’m in the lobby writing.     Yesterday’s trip was great.   We caught a view of a few more “Vegas” items, like the old “Welcome to ..” sign shown here.   And there were the Krispy Creme donuts that we HAD to consume.  They melt in your mouth like butter!   The drive took about 6 hours.   It’s usually about 5 hours or so to the Grand Canyon, but the traffic in Boulder City backs up for a long stretch.

You can see more of the pictures from our trip through the menu link “More Trip Photos” above.

We’ll head out soon to the various canyon views.   Martin and I will hike down some of the Bright Angel Trail, though I don’t know how far we will go.   It takes twice as long to come up, so you have go be careful about the time spent going down.   Also they are predicting high winds today as a front is coming through.   Could have some thunder showers in the afternoon as well, so I don’t want to be out in those while on the trail.

More later!