June 9, 2017

This KOA has a food cart open for breakfast from 7 to 9.  We bought our breakfast and ate it in the trailer.  No cooking is my favorite kind.  We had a little trouble sleeping last night because of the thin air and altitude.  After breakfast, we took a little rest before we set out for Grand Canyon.  It took about an hour to get there and we went through a forest fire site that was still smoking and an active forest fire that had firefighters working on it.   It was a small fire and completely contained but very smoky.  There were tent campers right on the other side of the highway from it.  Scary.

Parking is difficult on the South Rim of the Canyon.  We were lucky and found a spot quickly.  As we were walking in we saw some idiots carrying small flowering cacti they had found off the path and just appropriated.  I don’t understand people sometimes. 

There are no words to describe the majesty of the Grand Canyon.  The place almost seems holy.  I am attaching many photos but they don’t begin to tell the story.  There were many visitors from all over the world, but most were respectful and quiet.  Some areas were crowded but, if you were patient, you could get to any viewpoint eventually.   

We walked a part of the South Rim path and then went to the Visitors Center for a short movie describing the geological history.  Then we headed back to our pups.

We went into Williams again for dinner, which we ate at Goldie’s Route 66 Diner.  After dinner, we picked up a few supplies at Safeway and headed back to the trailer after taking a detour around the nightly Wild West Show held right in the middle of town, in the middle of Route 66 itself.

On the edge of town is a wildlife refuge called Bearizona.  I think we will skip that one but I love the name.