We drove west from Southeastern Colorado across northeastern Arizona headed toward the Grand Canyon. Although not too far from the beautiful scenery in southern Utah, this drive was as ugly as southern Utah was beautiful. Hard to believe. We stopped for the night in Kayenta, AZ parking in a vacant dirt lot in back of Burger King. Before I even had the RV parked we had 5 stray dogs circling looking for handouts. Before I knew it, the kids had the windows open and were throwing food out to them. We spent a restless night here. The wind was howling all night long. I took the dog out for a walk in the morning and literally got showered with sand – the wind was blowing so hard. After cleaning the sand out of my ears, we got back on the road happy to leave Kayenta and Burger King behind us.
Approaching the Grand Canyon from the east allowed us drive alongside 40 miles of the canyon before we actually got to Grand Canyon Village on the southeast rim. There were some great lookouts along the drive. At around 300 miles long, 18 miles wide at its widest point and over a mile deep one thing that pictures simply can’t capture is the scale of the canyon. Simply put – it’s massive. Also, most of the canyon that we saw drops literally straight down thousands of feet creating sheer cliffs along the rim of the canyon. Needless to say we didn’t let the kids get too far away from us on this stop. I was hoping we’d see the deer and elk near the village that we had seen when visiting several years back but they weren’t around. If you haven’t ever been to the Grand Canyon add it to your bucket list – it is definitely worth seeing.
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| We stuck to the rim trail where they installed railings - believe it or not there's very little railing to be found here. |
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| Nancy and Zach peering over the edge - I wouldn't get that close... |
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