Filling Stations VI

The Bill taking a rest...

Chasing the Sunset II

Grand Canyon III : Chasing the Sunset

 We just finished dinner as the evening sunlight begins to diminish but we are feeling energetic.  I tell Bill if he would like to watch the sunset over the Canyon at the one place we have not been : Desert Overlook: The Watchtower.  In Bill fashion, he says, Why not.  So we are off chasing the sunset.

Prohibition Repealed

Bill gets a much needed reprieve from all of that Indian nation no booze law.  The Winebulance took good care of it as well as a Mexican Restaurant with good food and booze...

Grand Canyon III. : Clowning around

Bill and I met these young women from Spain who ask me to help take both the pictures together. The theme was to make believe you were falling over with frighten looks of our faces.

 Belting out a Sinatra Tune.

Grand Canyon

Bill's Slavation is near....

Everyone knows for 3 days and 3 nights Bill was without Wine.  Like our Lord he suffered on the cross of sobriety crying out to the immortal, Prince Lagavulin Campbell "Why have you forsaken me".

The Grand Canyon

Overwhelming, magnificent, and how insignificant you seem in the presence of billions of years of geological formations that make up the Canyon.  They do not call it Grand for nothing.  We decide to get a room in the town just outside the Canyon called Tusayan a Holiday Inn that was more than adequate but the Wifi was suspect hence these later postings.   Bill cannot get over the scope of the Canyon as he mentions how fortunate he is to witness this wonder.

So we decide...

We left Canyon De Chelly traveling 191 south to get back to RT 66 when we arrive at a interesting road heading west.  We check the map and the road is a scenic by way going into and riding the south rim of the Grand Canyon. I asked Bill which road he wants to take and he chose the Grand Canyon west road so off we go....and here come some amazing photos..

The Desert is a Harsh Mistress..

Keeping up

I like to read a local paper when I am traveling.

Spider Rock II

Bill enjoys and is awed (me too) by Spider Rock and surrounding Canyon walls over 150 million years old...minimum..

Spider Rock

We spent most of the day doing nothing but relaxing. The late afternoon we took a jaunt to the visitors center where Bill bought a canyon book of great photos then we drove the south rim and visited the Spider Rock overlook.
On the last access road to the canyon rim, you'll come to the Face Rock Overlook, which provides yet another dizzying glimpse of the ever-deepening canyon. Here you gaze 1,000 feet down to the bottom. However, it is the next stop -- Spider Rock Overlook -- that offers the monument's most spectacular view. This viewpoint overlooks the junction of Canyon de Chelly and Monument Canyon. The monolithic pinnacle known as Spider Rock rises 800 feet from the canyon floor, its two free-standing towers forming a natural monument. 

Navajo Guide VI

Our guide took us deep in the Canyon for a close up look of the Anasazi ruins.  Notice the swastika a religious symbol going back 3000 years before it was perverted during WW 2.  I love history and visiting ancient civilizations. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika