Verde Canyon Train & Grand Canyon

We have decided to spend the next 9 days in the Sedona area.  On Thursday we went on the Verde Canyon Train which explored the Verde River and remote canyon.  The  tracks were built early 20th century to haul copper from Jerome where one of the largest copper mines in the world was located.  It was a fun outing, https://www.legendsofamerica.com/az-jerome/On Friday we took a daytrip to visit the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.  When we got there a rush of nostalgia overcame us from when we hiked rim-to-rim and from when we rafted 8 days on the Colorado.  We truly…

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Lots of exploring, very little cell service!

We are sitting overlooking Lake Powell and Page, AZ as this is the only place we both have enough cell service to update the website!  We have been at Wahweap Campground on Lake Powell since Monday.We have continued to enjoy 4WD dirt roads of Paria Canyon where the colors were amazing and the Vermillion Cliffs area.  We also did a day trip to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon and Lees Ferry; both very nostalgic from when we hiked rim-to-rim in 2016 and when we rafted the Colorado 267+ miles through the Grand Canyon in 2014.  While there we…

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Zion National Park

We spent 2 days exploring Zion National Park.  We started at the East Entrance and worked our way to the West Entrance near the Visitor Center.  The drive from the East is a thriller, winding roads, a plethora of colors and a mile long tunnel!  Carol had read that there are Big Horn Sheep, but they were very shy and rarely seen, well that created a major challenge to find them.  We stopped at every pull off to use binoculars to find the sheep (Carol looked through the binoculars so long she had motion sickness)! After searching for a several…

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