THE GRAND CANYON
22ND - 28TH AUGUST
As predicted by us amateur meteorologists the rain started falling before we got out of Utah. We’d been so lucky that it had been good for most of our stay there that we obviously couldn’t complain. We had to backtrack quite a bit, until we got past the Zion turnoff and headed into Arizona and yet another time change!! We got to the small village of Jacobs Lake, set in a gorgeous pine forest with nothing more than a shop/garage/diner/restaurant, and a couple of campsites. After one or two wrong turns we eventually found ours. Mum and Dad were back in the comfort of a motel room, which was quite basic but apparently beat camping!! We were taking no chances anymore, all accommodation for the rest of our stay had been booked!! By the time we’d set up our tents it was time to get something to eat, and Mum had very kindly offered to buy us dinner again. (Thanks Mum!). As it seemed to be very much a one horse town though, we decided to get to the diner in case it shut early.We’re weren’t expecting too much from the place, but we were delighted to find local red trout on the specials board! Dad had a big plate of pork chops and Hel had a fantastic mushrooms and veggies in orange sauce . We all thought it was one of the best meals we’d had, except for poor old Cath who had to settle for a good old cheese butty and chips!!
The next morning we set off for the North Rim itself. We had to drive through the forest where they’d had a huge fire recently - Hel and I remember hearing about it on the radio, as they closed the North Rim completely. There’s only one road in and out of it basically, and it was on fire!! The sheer scale of the destruction was incredible - literally miles and miles of forest just ravaged by the fire. We saw lots of posters put up by the locals complaining that the local fire brigade was under-resourced which made the fire much worse than
The next morning we set off for the North Rim itself. We had to drive through the forest where they’d had a huge fire recently - Hel and I remember hearing about it on the radio, as they closed the North Rim completely. There’s only one road in and out of it basically, and it was on fire!! The sheer scale of the destruction was incredible - literally miles and miles of forest just ravaged by the fire. We saw lots of posters put up by the locals complaining that the local fire brigade was under-resourced which made the fire much worse than