Sedona and the Grand Canyon

This morning Heidi, Beau, and I left early to make our way north to Sedona.

We left around 5 am to make it there early for our 8 am Pink Jeep Tour. I slept the entire way to Sedona.

We got out of the car and it was pretty cool outside, so we put on an extra layer and grabbed a coffee before we left.

The Pink Jeep Tour was a lot of fun. We had a great guide and she was really knowledgeable about the area.  The views were spectacular and as it got a little later we could shed the extra hoodie and enjoy the warmth.

We had a little time after we finished to shop before driving up to the Grand Canyon.  We stopped in Williams for lunch, right on Route 66. They were the last town that was bypassed when the highway went in in 1984.

We went to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon and basically walked the whole side.  It was a beautiful day, and there were a lot of people there. 

I think I appreciated the Grand Canyon more this time around, compared to when I was here during our family trip back when I was in high school. 

We had a lot of fun, took a lot of pictures,  and then grabbed the shuttle to bring us back toward our car.

From the South Rim we drove further up to Page. Unfortunately we didn't know that the highway up ahead had been closed due to a landslide. So now we had to turn around and make our way back to the other Page turnoff, which was not marked as a detour. It was probably about 40 miles of backtracking, then an additional 44 miles to get to Page. But we made it.

Luckily, Heidi jumped out and checked us in and then we went to park because when we walked back to the lobby a giant tour bus had arrived and began flooding the lobby. So we could just bypass them and get right up to our room.

Now we're just ordering a pizza and we'll all likely crash quickly.