Thursday, Feb 24th - The Past Two Weeks...

I have had no time to blog! Between doing, planning, food shopping, food prep, eating the food, locating the brochure or map that we currently need in the ever growing collection of travel info we are amassing, downloading photos from my camera, phone, and Bob’s camera to my laptop (and rarely even looking at them!), keeping a log of everything we do, throwing in an occasional trip to a laundromat - if there is a minute to spare, I like to unwind with my Kindle.

We dawdled in the Tucson area for almost 2 months and were in the Phoenix area for about 2 1/2 weeks (kosher restaurants, kosher frozen yogurt!)

Then with less than a month to go before we needed to be back in Jersey, we were trying to cram everything else we would like to do into the remaining short time.

Here are some pictures of what we did in the last two weeks:

Sedona

A hot air balloon almost landed on us at our campsite

Oak Creek Canyon and Flagstaff

The Grand Canyon

Marble Canyon and Lee’s Ferry
The day we left the Grand Canyon for Lee’s Ferry the wind picked up and there was a rare sandstorm. Tumbleweeds and garbage gusted across the road, and I was expecting cows or houses to follow at any moment. We had to struggle to open or close the van doors against the wind. Visibility was poor and the light was weirdly dim. We got a fine coating of sand on our skin and on everything in Our V, and grit in our teeth.

On the drive

A patch of clear sky

The Vermillion Cliffs and Marble Canyon

Condors! circling above Marble Canyon

Condor #3 coming in for a landing

Lee’s Ferry. Pioneers and their wagons were ferried across the Colorado River here. Impossible to imagine how the wagons made it down the cliffs on one side and up the cliffs on the other.  Sand is still suspended in the air.

A private group loading up for a 30 day trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. They are bringing everything they need for the full 30 days. Between the remnants of the sandstorm, the high winds, the rain coming later this evening, the freezing temps forecasted for the rest of the week, and the lateness of the day in getting going, they are not off to an auspicious start. I hope they are OK.

Page

Lower Antelope Canyon

Horseshoe Bend

What remains of Lake Powell. All the bleached rock used to be underwater.

The Beehive Loop Trail

Today we started on our way home, and after almost 3 months, have left Arizona.

My next post will be what we did today on our drive from Page to where we are now and will be through Shabbos - Santa Rosa Lake St Park. NM.