route 66/grand canyon

Snow at the Grand Canyon
One of the many lookouts at the Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon

A Cafe on Route 66.

Saturday 8th March

Today we left Kingsman and followed the longest remaining section of the original Route 66. The section we travelled was a little over 100 miles, it gave us a look at some of the old towns along the route that are now almost ghost towns. Some of the towns have set up old 50's style cars like corvettes as a display, I guess it's a way to capturing the tourists. The drive was good however the complete 2000 miles of the Route 66 would have been fantastic but now impossible, what a shame. After lunch we hit the Grand Canyon National Park and paid our park pass to enter. We decided to go to a lookout called Desert Point which is the highest point on the southern side of the canyon. The view was fabulous, it is breath taking to look at the canyon and too hard to describe the feeling of actually looking at it. Photos are great but being there in person is so cool. While heading back to the visotor centre the weather was changing quickly, black sky was approaching and lightning in the distance. About 10 minutes later it started to snow. We stopped the car at a look out and took some photos of us standing in the snow. Tomorow we are going to spend the day in the natioinal park and do some of the walks and the other look outs. You could spend a couple of weeks here with the amount of stuff to do. By the way if you are wondering it was about 4 or 5 degrees today while it was snowing. There is also snow on the sides of the road as you drive around the area.