We headed south towards the Grand Canyon on June 8th. Stopping to gas up in the small town of
Marysvale, just south of Big Rock Candy Mountain, we saw this sign:
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| Catfish Ain't Ugly |
It became the saying of the weekend, always said in a funny
accent. It didn’t make much sense, but
we found it hilarious…saying it at the strangest times, it always made us crack
up.
We’ve found that driving these long distances with the kids,
one who ALWAYS has to go potty, generally adds about an hour of stopping to
each 4 hours of driving.
Our big stop this day was in Kanab, UT. This small desert town reminded us of Moab,
only smaller. We stopped to picnic at
their beautiful City Park. The boys were
thrilled to find a huge playground, much of it in the shade, AND fountains to
play in! What a welcome cool-down break
mid-day!
As we continued on to the North Rim, the children slept
while we drove through huge stands of forests that had been decimated by fire
within the last several years. Tall,
empty, black tree remains stood tall over a greening forest floor.
This reminded us of the High Park Fire near Fort Collins last
year at this time. We thought about how
the burn area will be trying to heal and regrow and how long it might take
before the area looks the same as before the fire. We said a silent prayer hoping for no
wildfires near us this season.
Finally, we had made it to the North Rim! We were greeted by a herd of, what we were to
later learn were, “beefalo!” Years and
years ago, some young agricultural entrepreneur brought a buffalo to the North
Rim to breed with beef cattle to produce a hardy, high quality meat
source. Things didn’t pan out quite the
way he envisioned, though, and the National Park Service eventually took over
the care and protection of the new “beefalo” offspring.
Checking into the North Rim Campground, we found our
BEAUTIFUL site in the Tent Only Loop - #7.
It was gorgeous, spacious, and quiet.
Even the bathrooms were clean and close!
We quickly set up camp so that we could continue on about
100 yards to THE EDGE to check out THE VIEW!
We were amazed, in awe, and couldn’t help grinning ear to
ear to see that grand beauty. THAT is
the true meaning of AWESOME! We are glad
to have gotten some wonderful pictures, but NOTHING could communicate the
beauty and size of what we experienced personally.
We enjoyed two beautiful sunsets on that cliff; Dan was
lucky enough to see a sunrise, as well!
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