The photo of the dinner cruise boat will have to wait until tomorrow.
Today we visited the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Lee’s Ferry/Navajo Bridge Interpretive Center and stopped and bought a Navajo vase. The trip to the North Rim is all scenic highways with lots of mountains and high forests. The temperature today in Page, AZ, is 93 degrees and the humidity is 7%. It is unseasonably warm in this area of the country. Not complaining because even though the daytime temperatures are warm, the evenings cool down to the low 60’s-high 50’s. I had thought that by traveling in the fall of the year the temperatures would be more moderate.
The first photo is of the changing color of the Aspens in the high mountain meadows. The highest elevation we reached today was 8,420 feet. The next photo is the usual.
These photos are on the Bright Angel Trail to the major view point on the North Rim. This is a spectacular view of the canyon.
Look at that table and the view! You can have a burger for a couple bucks more than at McDonalds and have a view of one of the Seven Wonders of the World! How great is that? There’s only one lodge on the North Rim and this is a photo of the dining room. All around the lodge there are cabins and many are sitting right along the rim with million dollar views of the canyon. How great is that?
We have the greatest National Park system in the world! We have seen people from all over the world visiting our National Parks.
As seniors, we can buy ($10 for life) the Golden Age Passport and visit any national park or monument for free. Free, no fee. How great is that? Now that’s a great value or benefit, and I think that seniors are entitled to some benefits, but this one might be going too far; it’s TOO generous. I would like to see an annual fee for national parks and monuments because the park system needs more revenue to maintain and modernize all of the parks. We have seen historic buildings that are in desperate need of repair, and there aren’t funds available to restore them.
On our way to the North Rim, we stopped along the highway and looked at the Navajo jewelry and pottery. On the way back, we stopped and bought a beautiful horse-hair vase with a picture story painted around it. In 50 years we’ll take it to the Antiques Road Show and see if it appreciated in value.
Below is the view from behind the tables of Navajo wares. How great is that?
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