OK, well what can I say about the Grand Canyon? Probably nothing much, it is truly an awe inspiring sight. Words and pictures in no way do justice to the size of it. Even the numbers, 300(?) miles long, up to 18 miles wide, up to a mile deep, none of this really means anything. Even standing at the top it's hard to really grasp it's size. Sadly, as with everything else this trip, we didn't have much time to look. We got up early in the morning to drive around a little and use some of the observation points. I guess we spent about 2 hours looking at the place. I would have loved to have the time and money to take a helicopter trip, or a donkey ride, or an ATV excursion but this trip it was not to be. So after taking some pictures and admiring the view we headed back to the hotel to check out and get on our way.
Krista has two brothers, one sister, one brother-in-law, one sister-in-law, three nieces and one nephew living in Arizona. One brother is in Prescott and the rest in Tucson. We called the Prescott brother and arranged to meet for lunch on the way to Tucson. He gave us directions to come in through Sedona and along route 89A to get to him, instructions were that this would be mountainous grades and lots of curves. Man, he was not kidding, this was the absolute craziest road I have ever driven on. It wound up and down the mountain. A one point it was pouring with rain, so that we were down to 20mph, thankfully it cleared before we reached the twistiest part of the drive. The valley coming in to Sedona is beautiful, lush and green and tons of camping. We didn't stop for picures because we were running behind and there weren't many pull offs. Take a look on google maps for Jerome, AZ and look at the roads to the east and west, what the map doesn't show is the elevation changes. Wow!
Prescott was wet, it started to pour with rain again. We followed brother through the city, some of the intersections were feet deep in water. It was hard to follow. Lunch was good, I had a nice burger and Krista ate a quarter of an enormous salad.
Lunch done we headed on towards Tucson, about a further 3 hours. The drive was pretty much uneventful other than a little rain here and there. Nothing like the torrential downpours from earlier. GPS on the cell phone navigated us directly to Wendy and Genes house and here we are.
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