Fifteen Summers: 15 Summers: 2015. A Quickie to the Grand Canyon

15 Summers: 2015. A Quickie to the Grand Canyon

“I’d be the worst husband ever if I never brought Liz here”….Glenn

After being awestruck by seeing the Grand Canyon earlier in the year while on my Sturgis road trip, I knew I had to bring Liz here for her to experience it also. Liz is a camper extraordinaire and a lover of natural beauty and the outdoors. Planning a camping trip with her is a piece of cake. It’s all about low maintenance camping as long as there are coffee, firewood, some Trader Joe’s Dunkers, and a deck of cards…..Hells bells, Liz used to do what she called, “Miata” camping; Pack it into her little Miata and go.

In September, 2015, we packed Liz’s Honda and headed out for a three day weekend adventure. I did the driving which is rare. Liz usually drives when we go somewhere. I wanted her to be able to enjoy as much of the trip as possible without having to concentrate on the road. Once in Seligman, Az., on the famous Route 66, we stopped at the Road Kill Café.

I had a buffalo burger that tasted like shit. I’ll never eat that slop, again. So much for the novelty of eating buffalo meat.

We made our way to the Grand Canyon and stayed inside the National Park in one of their campgrounds on the south rim. As I mentioned, Liz is a camper extraordinaire so her tent is more like a condominium than the pup tent camping that I am used to.

All the comforts of home

Also, her air mattress is fit for royalty. Throw in super comfortable folding camp chairs, propane stove, lanterns, table clothes, munchies, ice chest, and all the camping comforts of an REI showroom and you’ve got one hell of a campsite. …..Now that’s what I’m talkin’ ‘bout! We even had the typical loud-mouth New Yorkers in the campsite across from us.....What more could one ask for?

All this just so we can have coffee.......but of course!

Nothing like morning coffee with Dunkers

The Grand Canyon National Park has it all seriously goin’ on. Once you are in the Park, they provide free bus transportation everywhere. They even have a supermarket. There are hiking trails, walking paths, viewing vistas, tours, shops, and just about anything one needs. And animals, animals everywhere. Crafty animals at that. One squirrel ate through our Rummy Cube game box thinking there just might be food inside of it.

For dinner one night, we left the park and went into town to some tourist shithole that pretended to be some kind of traditional “western” cowboy yippie-kai-ya motherfunkin' out on the prairie wagon trail bullshit meal. Besides the worst service ever, the food was barely edible. Oh well, the Japanese tourists loved it and their “authentic cowboy experience.”

We explored as much of the south rim as our energy levels allowed us. We hiked a short ways down into the canyon, took the buses to all of the lookout spots, and enjoyed our campsite and campfire.