Decemberween 2024: Part 1 - Williams and the Grand Canyon

We started the trip like we would have headed to the Fram, only we'd decided to make it easy and stop in Williams, AZ, the "Gateway to the Grand Canyon". Williams, still six hours away, is usually a dinner stop on the way to Flagstaff or one of the other I-40 hotel-town stops on the way to Texas every summer.

But Williams was 29 degrees and all dressed up for the season:

We stayed in a tiny, darkened motel that may have been creepy if you were into that kind of thing, and the next day, after breakfast, we left for the Grand Canyon, an hour due north from Williams.

So...the Grand Canyon...

Like Venice in Italy, nearly every direction you look is postcard worthy beauty. It's breathtaking, stupefying, and outrageous all at once. Later you look at your pictures on whatever device you use to capture them, and there are hundreds...all beautiful and crazy and in that moment completely devoid of the context you were thinking when you took it. Here are some:

Ot's not that they don't all blend together...but they kinda do. Each is spectacular on their own, and I've got dozens more. Many with my peeps in them.

We checked out one of the museums, and got to play with the model:

We gave Cass my old point and shoot cannon, and he took a bunch of his own pics. He had a hefty amount of anxiety about the "edge," and below is about as close as he was willing to get on his own:

It was great and amazing and wonderful and I love that we brought the kids. Camille won't remember more than impressions, but that's life when you're almost 5.

We drove on to Kayenta, a town in the middle of Navajo Nation. We wanted to spread our money around, and this seemed like a decent way to do it.