Day 42 Leaving Grand Canyon

It has been great here, but time to move on. Yesterday we spent more time taking walks along the canyon rim. Last night a ranger gave a full moon talk on the canyon rim at Mather Point. We was supposed to go for a ranger walk also, but that was called off when maybe 200 people showed up. They said it would not be safe. Barb and I walked by ourselves for about a mile along the canyon rim in the moonlight. The canyon was really fairly bright in the light of the moon. It was spectacular. We plan to head in the direction of Glen Canyon dam and Utah today.

Day 41 Enjoying Grand Canyon

We got to move soon I am running out of blog titles. The weather is so great now and we are really enjoying this place that we hate to move on. It is in the 70's now with crystal clear skies. The moon is almost full so at night it even lights up the canyon, so beautiful. This is a national park campground so there is no electricity or showers. It is only $9 a night with our national parks Golden Age Passport, but we paid to take showers yesterday and it was $1.75 each for 5 minutes. At noon we were eating lunch at the picnic table, and the chickadees and nuthatches were flying around very close. I put crunched peanuts on my hand and the birds would set on my hand and eat. In the afternoon we rode the free buses along the canyon rim and seen the places we had not been before. We saw a bald eagle and the pack mules on the trail. Taking lots of pictures, sorry can't send any.

Day 40 Still more Grand Canyon

We are still at the Grand Canyon at Mather campground, and planning to stay another day. We have to renew our campsite by 11 am. It is now about 10 am wednesday. Yesterday we started out walking the rim east, but by the time we got to first place where there was a bus stop, there was no food available, and being hungry we took the bus back to central village to eat. At 3 pm we watched the ranger program about the California Condors. We talked to her and found out she was from Oak Harbor, OH. We did not see any Condors. The previous day we saw one setting on a ledge. Later we took another bus west to the end of the line and watched sunset. We caught the last bus back to village and went to a resturant to eat supper, but there was an 1.5 hr. wait so we went back to camper. Still have problem sending pictures.