Blogs from Tusayan, Arizona, United States, North America

Man Made and Natural Wonders Driving between states in America quickly reminds you of the immense size of this country. In this blog I will cover our days in Vegas and the Grand Canyon as well as the road trip on the interstate back to Los Angeles for our flight to the second leg of our adventure. Tuesday 31st of October - Las Vegas Our day began early as we loaded up our car and headed for the interstate. To tell you the truth, I was ready to leave L.A., as cool as it was to be in L.A. I am and always will be a country boy and much prefer the open expanses and peace of such. Our drive took us through the open planes and valleys of California and into the great state of ... read more

Our journey from Las Vegas to the Grand Hotel in Tusayan, included a tourist stop at Hoover Dam and a late lunch in Kingman. Although one of our longer road trips (driving time of around 4 and a half hours), the changing landscape enthralled us and the time passed quickly. It was late afternoon by the time we checked into the hotel (very nice indeed complete with its rustic cabin feel lobby, large stone fireplace and wood carvings) and we had a relaxing evening of pizza and TV. Our day at the Grand Canyon can only be described as truly awesome. We had been looking forward to our visit to this natural wonder and the experience itself certainly did not disappoint. It really is difficult to find the words (yes, even for me!) to describe the ... read more

Hi Friends and Family, We checked out of our lovely LA hotel this morning and decided to have our breakfast en-route as today, we were going to Arizona. We decided to go down Down Town to see whether we would get a different flavour of LA. So we did! The day before, we noticed that a not more than 15-20 minute drive would take you into the Mexican-Indian communities and the trams. Who knew that LA had trams? What brought us into this area? Snow chains? We needed snow chains as we were going to four (4) National Parks and at least (3) of them had the strong potential of being in heavy snow situations so we needed to be prepared and had been advised to go to a special automobile shop which would have such ... read more

Geo: 35.9746, -112.126We planned a layover at the Grand Canyon on the way home, then a leisurely drive north through more astounding canyon country to Kanab, Utah, north past Bryce Canyon National Park (didn't visit it this time, though) and over to I 15 straight north.This country is one red butte after another--almost more than the eye can absorb.We spent sunset and sunrise at the Grand Canyon. Sunset was pretty okay, but the next morning was overcast until around 9 or so, when the sun finally started peeking through and we could begin to see detail in the canyon walls.We especially got a kick (no pun intended) out of the elk cavorting and frolicking--we'd never seen elk play like that.This hotel was wonderful with comfy beds, large breakfast and helpful staff. We highly recommend it to ... read more

Ahhhhhhhh !! The air conditioning started working sometime during the day yesterday so Tim was able to get a cool good nights sleep. He was going to need it because we were planning on making the trip all the way to the Grand Canyon today without stopping. We packed up everything and headed towards the elevators only to find that three of the six were not working this morning. I thought to myself, what else is going to happen ?? We had to stand there while the elevator stopped nine times before we could squeeze into one. Oh well, I guess Kayla would say that all these things are what memories are made of ! We eventually got checked out and made a b-line for the motor home. It was so weird when we arrived at ... read more