Traveling the USA Part II

I wake up early and find that the predicted snow did not come. Yea! So I get up and walk over to the rim of the canyon, and keep on walking. Great way to start the day. The canyon colors are incredible. I get back to the trailer about 90 minutes later to make breakfast for everyone.

It is really cold out this morning, so we hang out in the trailer with the heater going (using our generator) and do some paperwork and schoolwork. We have lunch and then head out for our hike down into the "canyon" which I now know isn't a canyon at all. The campground is located on the Rim Trail, so we take the trail over to Queens Garden Trail for our hike into the canyon. It's a great hike with incredible scenery.

When we get to the end of Queens Garden Trail, we take the connector trail over to the Navajo Loop Trail which takes us across the bottom of the canyon (again, it's not really a canyon, but a geological amphitheatre) and then up to the other side of the canyon. The walk to get back up to the rim of the canyon is not my favorite part, but I make it. The oxygen level at this altitude is reduced so I get out of breath easily.

While we're hiking today, Joe takes a photo of me and tells me to put it on my blog page; being the pushover that I am with my kids, here's Joe's photo of me:

After hiking down, across, and up the other side of the canyon, we have to hike back across the Rim Trail to return to the campground. We are tired! We have dinner and spend the rest of the evening relaxing in the warm trailer. Another cold night is forecasted here.