This morning we packed up the old suburban and headed east. After sitting down last night and looking at the boxes that mira
culously trippled in size and numbers when I wasn't looking, we vetoed the whole Rav4 idea. I think it would have had a hard time holding our luggage. Especially knowing how I pack... Here are some pics of the suburban and the family as we all said goodbye.
culously trippled in size and numbers when I wasn't looking, we vetoed the whole Rav4 idea. I think it would have had a hard time holding our luggage. Especially knowing how I pack... Here are some pics of the suburban and the family as we all said goodbye.
We covered 530 miles in about eight hours. By the time we had reached Kingman, AZ both of us were covering ground we had never been before. I have been to Havasu, AZ a few times and my father has been to Pheonix. Northern Arizona is nothing like either of us could ever imagine. It is covered in beautiful forests with large pine trees.
Before stopping for the night in Flagstaff, we stopped at the Grand Canyon Caverns for a tour. Named when they realized the air in the caverns comes from the Grand Cayon that is over 60 miles away, the massive dry cavern is quite impressive. D
esignated at one point as a potential fall out shelter during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the government stockpiled enough food and water for 2000 people. They forgot, however, to factor in why the cavern are called the Grand Canyon Caverns. The fall out shelter they created would have been useless in the event that any radioactive exposure reached the Grand Canyon as it would funnel right into the caverns. I'm attaching a few pictures from the tour.
esignated at one point as a potential fall out shelter during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the government stockpiled enough food and water for 2000 people. They forgot, however, to factor in why the cavern are called the Grand Canyon Caverns. The fall out shelter they created would have been useless in the event that any radioactive exposure reached the Grand Canyon as it would funnel right into the caverns. I'm attaching a few pictures from the tour.
Tomorrow we will cover the rest of Northern Arizona, fly through New Mexico and cross into the Texas Panhandle. Its looking like another 500+ mile day!
Check out my dad's post http://www.stripersonline.com/surftalk/showthread.php?t=613922
- LGM
2 comments:
Cool I never knew that the grand cannon would funnel radiation. learned something.
Yeah crazy right? Something about how radioactive air can travel! Who knew? Just goes to show you that sometimes we just don't have a good plan.
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