Wednesday morning finds us tucked into the RV parking lot at Twin Eagles Casino, we got here at 11:00 yesterday, unhooked, and headed off to the Grand Canyon, we visited the Grand Canyon a number of years ago, we did a day trip from Vegas in triple degree temperatures…not one of our smartest decisions…just saying. So to be only an hour and a half away it was a no brainer to make another visit, so after unhooking we were off to the big hole, we got there at around one o’clock and spent a number of hours on the bus system that runs you along the south rim of the canyon, we only walked a little more than a mile but on that walk encountered four elk, three cows and one youge bull, as they climed up and walked accross the walkway to move onto better pastures on the other side of the path. Now as I have stated multiple times Miss Laurie is the photographer, so to see the pictures you have to go to our face book page the address is shown below, I’m the one that writes about the adventures, the Facebook page is private so you will have to ask to join.

https://www.facebook.com/TheBuchanansRollingDowntheRoad/

Tuesday was a good solar day with 160 amp/hours of power were brought in, we are parked on an angle to get the best use of the sun, without tilting our panels so because of our short drive on Tuesday only 40 miles (60 kms) the battery bank did not get fully charged yesterday, but I expect to get close again today as there is nothing but sun forecast today. Today we are headed to the Sedona area, its is located just south of Flagstaff, and is claimed to be a must see area so we are off today to investigate the area.

 

See what happens to your chip bags at higher altitudes, every chip bag, cat food bag, just about any sealed bag will blow up like a balloon. Well we are not really at 7200 feet although we were at one point today before Albuquerque, we are only at 6000 ft tonight is Sunday night and we have checked into Dancing Eagle RV park, full hookups for a whopping $17.02 per night, but a 28 day maximum. We are packed in like sardines but we are just here one night, as we are off to Arizona on Monday , we are 108 miles to the state line and a total of 300 miles to Flagstaff. We have some stops tomorrow in Arizona that we missed two years ago the petrified forest, and some some corner in Winslow Arizona, that needs a picture of Miss Laurie in her eagles concert shirt. As usual we have been pushed by cold weather to our winter destination, we may weather permitting spend some time in the Flagstaff area.

It’s Monday morning and we are on the road to the petrified forest in Arizona, it is part of the National Park system, the painted desert, and the petrified wood. We got hooked up and were headed west by 10am the cold weather is just about one hundred miles to the east of us. We arrived at the park welcome centre at 12:30 and after a little orientation video we started in on what turned into a whole afternoon adventure, what we found so amazing was the that these logs turned to stone and this process started some where between 210 and 280 million years ago and all the different colours in the painted desert are from the same time frame, pictures just don’t do any of this justice.

We got back to Thunder at about 4:30, and reattached the towed and headed west to Winslow Arizona, we are in the Flying J truck stop for the night, we got here at sunset, so too late to tour the area, we will tackle that adventure tomorrow morning then off to a casino parking lot near Flagstaff which is only an hour west of us.