Speaking for myself, I am quite wimpy when it comes to heat. Let’s try Williams Arizona, the Gateway to the Grand Canyon. Don’t’ get excited yet because we did not go to the Grand Canyon. We stopped here for a few days to visit with Grandma and Grandpa. And a lot of fun we had although is ever NOT fun when Grandma and Grandpa are around ? Let me think – NO! We went to Sunset Crater National Monument just north of Flagstaff. A gorgeous area surrounded by lava fields and pine trees. We decided that when Grandma and Grandpa got on their motorcycle to go home we would head up to Sunset Crater to camp while we waited out the last few days before Daddy came home.
Father’s Day was spent with my dad – Lucky me! I say luck me because we spent the day replacing the water pump and adding an accumulator tank to our trailer. We had to drive in to Flagstaff to get parts an happened to stop at Barnes and Noble for a few minutes. When we came out of Barnes and Noble, I turned around and saw gigantic cloud of smoke behind the building. It looked like a bomb had gone off. As we drove back to Williams we kept watching the smoke cloud rise and grow. It was a truly awesome sight to see. In case you heard about the Schultz fire, this was it. We hooked up the cable TV in the RV park and watched the news to see that this fire was consuming thousands of acres of forest each day. The weather was incredibly dry and the brush and trees literally exploded. I know television news usually dramatizes things to get better ratings, but the images you may have seen on TV were exactly what we were seeing in person.
Guess what – Sunset Crater camping was definitely out of the question. We headed into Flagstaff to check out a county park just 3 miles south of town. Perfect! It became even more perfect when Heather and Justin called on their way back to Lake Powell and suggested we come up to the lake for the weekend before Flint came home.
We left the Trailer at Larry & Beverly’s (Heather’s Parents) Flagstaff cabin and headed on up to lake for some fun and distraction for the last couple of days before Flint got home. It worked wonders for all of us.
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