CuRVWander

We have stayed at the North Rim as long as we can, it is time to go.  We have to report to our next assignment on St. Simons Island, GA by the 1st of November and there are at least 3,000 miles to traverse with a multi-day stopover in Texas.  A lot of the people we worked with this summer are already gone.  We have had a few good-bye pizza parties and are now down to a skeleton crew.  We have worked with most of these people for two seasons now and knowing that we won't be back next season makes the goodbyes harder to do.  These folks are a special bunch. DAY 1, TRAVEL First stop is a couple of days in Flagstaff.  We have several errands to run and an appointment with the audiologist to get my hearing aides tuned up.  J&H RV park is our base of operation for the next couple of nights.  This is a very nice commercial campground that is "senior oriented".  It is a bit pricey with a pretty long list of rules.  I have bee...

With our co-hosts leaving before the last week of September and the closing of the campground before then end of October making it impractical to bring in new volunteers, we are going it alone for awhile.  Starting at 6:30 in the morning, taking a mid-day break and then finishing up at 10:30pm seven days a week is making for some long days.  But we only have to do this until the middle of October and then it is off to the east.  A 3,000 mile jaunt from northern Arizona to the southeast coast of Georgia. We barely leave the campground now, save a trip to Lindbergh Hill two or three times a week to dump ashes.  Then there is the occasional trip to the lodge deli for a take-out pizza.  There has not been much time for sight seeing or getting the camera out but there were a couple of opportunistic occasions where the phone camera sufficed. All summer long we have had 4 mule deer bucks hanging out together and making rounds through the campground.  As w...

Two posts back I mentioned that we were going to take advantage of the last few days of our co-hosts being around and use our days off to go for a long weekend on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.  Last year we got over to Flagstaff for an overnight trip and, among other things, we day-tripped out to the South Rim.  We got a taste of what it was like with most of our time being spent at the extreme east end of the park, Desert View. But there is much more to see and this year we are taking a three day weekend with almost the whole time dedicated to the South Rim.  Cyndee spent a couple of weeks trying to wrangle us a hotel room that was available on our days off, convenient to the South Rim and affordable.  Turns out that was a tall order.  First, finding any room that was available for two nights in a row was tough.  And if you got anywhere near, less than an hour away from the park entrance, the prices jumped well above $200/night.  I've paid that...