Get your kicks.......

Today required an early start....loading the car and hitting Grand Canyon Park for eight o'clock! The reason for this is simple...arrive early and you get to ride and hop-on-and-off the shuttle bus around its best views, and it feels like you have the place to yourself. Arrive later and all hell breaks loose! The the car parks fill, the Grand Canyon Train arrives, followed by the tour buses. The pressure is then put on the shuttle-bus route big time!! Fortunately, we saw views such as 'Mojave' and 'Abyss' under ideal conditions......and wow!

That place is so big.....once again we proved the theory that try as best you can, but photos don't do justice to the scale of this place!

Its difficult to imagine that the small moving things at the canyon are 'full-size' hikers or that the white streaks on the Colorado River rapids are each fifteen-foot across.

Having been suitably overwhelmed, we left Grand Canyon and headed for Flagstaff. The seventy-mile scenic drive was completed with hardly another vehicle in sight...its a wonderful route through pastures, forests, and the snow-covered San Francisco Peaks. (It feels more like Colorado than Arizona!) We were soon in Flagstaff and walking through the Historic Old Town, which is firmly rooted on Old Route 66.

We rounded-off the day with a dinner-trip to the Olive, where we swapped tales of Alaska with the waitress, who was an Alaskan! As for today's musical reminder, well its something from the past that we heard earlier today!