Crossing the Fifty

As we get older, well a little older, we find that we can't remember all the details of the things we did when we were younger.  This is for our benefit I am sure.  Last week our computer hard drive crashed.  It actually had a head on with the side of the desk.  We then came to realize that all the pictures we had been saving for the last 25 years were gone.  What were we to do...

Start over was our only conclusion.  We still had two kids at home and they couldn't remember half of the things that we did when they were two and three any way.  So this week it begins with a trip to St George.

We arrived late Friday night with nothing to do but go to bed.  So we stayed up and watched movies for a while.  This had us getting up a little later than usual on Saturday.  We talked the next morning about the fun times we had in St George and realized that the two youngest kids didn't remember the trip to the Grand Canyon.  Not really that great of a trip, all the kids threw up and we got there and froze to death.  We decided that because it was only an hour and a half a way why not run over and check it out.

On the way there we ran into a sign that said the road was closed and we had to take a detour.  We didn't mind because we had all day, right?  We kept going and came to the north rim of the Grand Canyon.  A little colder than we expected and the large "road closed" sign did not do much for my kids spirits.

We still had the better part of the day so we decided to make a run for the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. We jumped back in the Motorhome and away we went.  By 4:00 we had a time change on our hand and we were in the park.  The kids had a ball and the weather was awesome.  Sunny and warm and pictures to go with it.  

At 6:00 the park closed and we had to get on our way.  The nice ranger told up that we could make just as good of time if we went through Laughlin Nevada, there were freeways and the speed limits were faster.  So we decided to drive the long way around.  At 1:00 am I was too tired to continue on so I pulled over in the Valley of the Fire for the night.

 

The next day we caught some awesome views of the red rocks and natural formations.  We made it back to the condo by 12:00 and took a nap and had lunch.

All in all it was a crazy drive but we had a blast, got in a lot of talk time and never turned on the radio.  The good times have started again and we have a new collection of pictures to start the collection.

We still have three days and some more parks to go.  I think it will be a great trip.  Should have broken that hard drive years ago.

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