Photos #2 - The Drive

Setting off from Flagstaff on Tuesday, we headed for the Grand Canyon's North Rim. It was a very long drive, with roads that just seemed to go on forever. But we were lucky enough to have the mountains and huge rock forms surrounding us, amongst the vast Arizona sky.

Here are some photos that were taken along the drive there:

                                        






 
                                                                       Once at the North Rim of the Canyon, it was surprising to see the vast amount of trees that there were lining the roads and surrounding areas. There was also quite an eerie and sinister sense from parts of the surrounding forest where there had been a huge fire that had stripped and burnt down hundreds, if not thousands, of the giant trees, as seen in the last photograph.

The weather was much cooler in the Canyon compared to Phoenix and Flagstaff, most of the time it stayed around 85F and got cooler and breezier the further up you climbed.

And on our way driving out of the Canyon and towards Page today, we encountered some wild bison by the road side!

Stop one

We've arrived in Flagstaff! Set off pretty early this morning, which meant that we could beat the traffic, and get here with good time. Of course an obligatory stop off at Sonic for some shakes and fries was in order.. at 10am. No shame.

We got to Flagstaff for around 11:30am, had a nice little wander around the old town district, which has all the gorgeous refurbished traditional old buildings and cinemas, turned into quaint little coffee shops and boutique stores.

Tomorrow morning we will be setting off on the next part of our journey to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, with the first small stop off being at a place called Lees Ferry. More posts and photos coming up in the week!

Flagstaff

Officially on the road; today we're venturing out on our first part of our road trip. We're heading up to Flagstaff, to stay for a night, then from there we're working our way up to Lees Ferry, to finally arrive at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon for two nights. We will be staying in a log cabin on the rim there! A lovely way to escape the intense heat of Phoenix for a few days. Although, it will still be pretty hot.

There won't be any internet when we're at the Grand Canyon for the two days and nights we're there, so I will have a post scheduled. From then we're heading down to Sedona, then working our way back to Phoenix in time for the weekend, and of course, the up and coming 4th of July celebrations.

You can expect to see a photo-heavy post of everything when we return this weekend! Have a good week everyone x

Black Bear

It's been a fairly relaxing weekend, more time spent in the pool trying to cool off, we've had a few guests over for dinner, and had a bit of a shopping session at the big mall near here.

This morning we went out for breakfast at The Black Bear Diner, which we've tended to go to almost every year we have visited here. The service and food is always great, and you're certainly left feeling full afterwards! I had some pancakes mmm.

Tomorrow morning we're making our way up to Flagstaff for the night, then onto the Grand Canyon North Rim from there. You can expect to see a few more posts coming up later this week! And lots of photographs to show you by the end of it no doubt.

I hope everyone's had a good weekend! x