Kaibab National Forest, Arizona

May 1, 2023

After the non-stop activities in the Grand Canyon (when you are there only three days, you feel the need to optimize the time there), it was nice to relax a bit in a place where there wasn't much to do. Our next destination in the Kaibab National Forest scored big points in this regard. After selecting a site off the side of a forest road that we felt would be reasonably easy to get in and out of, we settled into a few days of catching up on the blog and doing some general chilling.

We had a good chunk of the forest to ourselves for a few days.

We did do a couple of other things. On Saturday, we took a 6.5 mile bike ride on some fairly sketchy forest roads. They were nowhere near as sketchy as some of the roads we took last year in places like Montana and Idaho, but they were a good re-introduction to the world of the unpaved.

This was not one of the sketchy parts of the road.

Neither was this part sketchy. Julie didn't take any pictures of the sketchy parts.

Later on that afternoon, we headed into the town of Williams, the self-ascribed Gateway to the Grand Canyon and popular stop along Route 66. It was a charming town that was doing its best to preserve its Route 66 heritage. Apparently, it was the last town on Route 66 to be bypassed by I40 (in 1984). There were plenty of motor-court motels, restaurants, bars, small museums, and funky gift shops.

We spotted Elvis driving an old car 😉

As usual Rick tried some night shots

Evening sunset off the deck

After enough resting up, we were ready to move on to the next destination--Lake Mead, Nevada.

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