Category: Arizona
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Day 44, Grand Canyon North Rim, May 17th
95 RV miles today, 6,574 total Up early to head to the north rim of the Grand Canyon, elevation over 8,500 feet. Only 10% of the visitors to the Grand Canyon venture to the North Rim. We hiked the Bright Angel Point Trial & had lunch at the Grand Canyon Lodge. Sunset at Point Royal after hiking…
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Day 38, “GRAND CANYON,” May 11th
0 RV miles today, 5762.3 total We hiked off the rim down into the canyon today at Kaibab South going about 3 and 1/2 miles. Another surreal experience! Being in this environment is quite extraordinary. WOW, m, b, s & t “Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been…
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Day 37, “GRAND CANYON,” May 10th
268.3 RV miles today, 5762.3 total Surreal…that is what seeing the GRAND CANYON for the first time appears! We left our gracious cousins outside Phoenix & travelled through Flagstaff, Arizona to arrive at the Grand Canyon, elevation 7138 feet at our campsite in Trailer Village near the South Rim. We spent hours overlooking the rim…
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Day 36, Phoenix, Arizona, Will Departs, Shelby Arrives, May 9th
0 RV miles today, 5494 total Will left to go back to Shanghai this morning and Shelby & Beth arrived from North Carolina late this afternoon. I washed “Thumper” today, a fun & monumental task. Jen (my 1st cousin, once removed) & I went out to lunch at Joe’s Farm Grill. She will be starting…
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Day 35, Travel Day, Cousins, Gilbert, Arizona, May 8th
447.6 RV miles today, 5494 total Will got up near dawn & went surfing again. We checked out at San Onofre Beach Camp Pendleton Military Campground and headed most of the day (400+ miles) through California & Arizona to Beth’s 1st cousin’s home in Gilbert, AZ. We went up over 4000 feet and down to…
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Day 14, Route “66,” April 17th
232.2 miles today, 3,029.6 miles total Surpassed 3,000 miles today! Departed the red rocks of Sedona for a zigzag ascent up Cleopatra Hill to hilltop Jerome (old mining town clinging to a steep slope), then over Mingus Mountain (7,000+ ft. elevation) in the Black Hills Mountain Range with steep slopes, tight curves, & numerous switchbacks meandering…
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Day 13, Sedona, Arizona, April 16th
12.7 miles today, 2,797.4 miles total We relaxed in the morning and hiked all afternoon ~ 3 to 4 miles in the red rock hills. Enough said…m,b & t “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard…
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Day 12, Sedona, Arizona April 15th
0 miles today, 2,784.7 miles total Sedona, with it’s breathtaking Red Rocks (iron in the sandstone, i.e., natural electromagnetic conductors), which jut from the high desert floor in furious jags, have inspired everyone from the Native Americans who worshipped their energy fields thousands of years ago to the hikers who now worship the views. It’s views have…
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Day 11, Rehoboth, NM, Petrified Forest, Sedona, AZ, April 14th
271 miles today, 2,784.7 miles total Sunday morning we attended church services where Ana & Jonathan Newman performed along with a native Navajo flutist. We had lunch in Gallup, New Mexico at the Route 66 Railway Cafe before heading into Arizona’s Petrified Forest enroute to Sedona. The petrified trees we saw were present when dinosaurs…