History be made today! I finally touched down at the Grand Canyon. Doreen has been here before, back during her childhood travel days with her folks, but this is a first for me! The trip today was pretty easy. We departed Monument Valley at 0840 hrs and headed south towards Kayenta, where we got our windshield fixed. Then west on US 160 again until we got to Tonalea where we stopped for a bit. The scenery changed as we headed south and west. Less red soil and rocks and more tan soil and rocks. Still a lot of soil and rocks LOL, but still beautiful scenery. I love this country!
Just past Tuba City we turned south on US 89 for a few miles and then west at Cameron on US 64, over the Little Colorado River, and on into the Grand Canyon National Park.
So the black Dodge Challenger.. That car played hop scotch with us all the way down here today. There must have been 10 cars and trucks in line and he blew by all of us like we were standing still. We kept on going and later, here he comes again! You could blind fold me and drive a Challenger by and I would be able to recognize it from the sound! Anyone remember the 1971 movie 'Vanishing Point' with Barry Newman? His 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T, with a 440 cubic-inch V-8 was white, but each time I saw that car today that movie came into my mind! I have been a MOPAR fan my entire life, and I have owned a whole lot of cars, mostly MOPARs during my tenure, but the Challenger has been elusive. It is my bucket list car. My problem is as long as we are camping I have no where to keep one. So it is likely an 'after camping' thing for me. The left hand wants a 1970 Challenger like Kowalski drove, but my right hand wants a smokin' Hellcat! Oh well, some day...
We entered the Grand Canyon National Park and it was not long until the canyon came into view, and it was awesome!
We continued on US 64 but there was obviously something going on at the upcoming viewpoint so we slowed to a stop and here it what we saw!
Soon we turned south on US 64 and we arrived at the Grand Canyon Camper Village RV park. This will work out great as the park is very close to the Grand Canyon National Park and it is right across the street from the IMAX, the Visitor Center and Pink Jeep Tours. There is a steak house, a pizza joint, grocery store and gas station all within walking distance of our campground.
I screwed up and left the refrigerator on 'propane only' and it's been operating on propane only for several weeks. Normally it will automatically switch to electric operation once we plug into shore power. So we drained a propane tank which resulted in a 'NoFL' error message saying 'no flame'. I switched it back over to electric operation and then switched the propane over to the spare tank. No worries. We will fill it in Las Vegas.
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