The Grand Canyon

We were only here a few hours, but here are our photos. The entrance, the drive in and the first view!

Some of these spots were shear drop offs!

Arizona

More of the drive in Arizona. The city below is Phoenix.


Northern Arizona, near Flagstaff.

Southern Arizona

We drove through El Paso and southern Arizona recently. Here are some of the photos from here. If you notice the cloudy looking mountains, it's not clouds, but smoke from the Arizona fires.

This one is so smokey, you can't see anything.

Trains, trains and more trains out west.


We have found that out west farmers will plant orchards of pecan trees and flood them in order to have enough water. We were surprised at the pecan orchards.

These mountains are really smokey.

Arizona: Meteor Crater and Flagstaff

We were headed to Flagstaff when we saw the exit sign for the great Meteor Crater, so we decided to stop and take a look.

We stayed here at Camp Navajo, a National Guard base, 7500 feet elevation. Much prettier than the dessert looking photos above of Arizona. Arizona is quite diverse in terrain! We were here May 25-27th. I wish I had gotten the mtn. photo earlier in the morning. It had much more snow on top of it because it had snowed the night before. Some of the trees are down from the tornado that ripped through last October, according to the camp host. The bldg is the bathhouse.
Highs were in the 70s and lows 30-40s. Perfect!

The mountain above is part of the Sacramento Mountains Range.
A nice stream runs at the bottom of the hill of the campground.
We saw deer tracks here, and look at the wild growing columbine flowers!