Grand Canyon was everything we had hoped it would be! This was one of the stops that we were most looking forward to and we had really wanted to backpack down to the river and back up. Unfortunately, because of our lack of time and resources, we're going to have to save that for our next trip. But we still had a wonderful time riding along the rim on the bike and enjoying the views of this majestic landmark.
For my first look of the Grand Canyon, Alex insisted I keep my eyes closed until we were on a lookout point right over the whole canyon. I tripped a few times and felt like I was going to fall off the ledge right into the Grand Canyon, but it was totally worth it!
I couldn't believe how big the Canyon actually is. It definitely makes the world seem so much bigger and us humans so much smaller than what we normally feel. We also spotted an elk family and lots of candor birds. One of my favorite things was the painters hiding out on random ledges, painting the landscape. We also saw a park ranger on a Ruckus! Awesome!
We decided to take a little break from our hurried pace home and tried to get a campsite in the National Park. A big part of why we wanted to stay there was that we've had 80 - 90 degree weather almost all of the trip, and this was our first time we were actually cold the whole trip and we loved it! So everything was completely full, but we did find an amazing campground a few miles south of the park that was only 10 dollars a night and we had our own fire pit, grill and basically the whole forest to ourselves. It was amazing!
Being in such a beautiful landscape we had to initiate all our camping gear that we got as wedding presents. So we brought out the tent, chair, hot dog sticks, propane lamp, coffee cups and thermos and that's about all we have.
So we totally got into the camping spirit and bought hot dogs to roast over the fire, something I don't think I've ever done camping since our family likes to camp in style. And we brought out the super complicated card game we bought from the Amish and played it all evening, once we figured out how to! This is my attitude about camping. This is Alex's...
Look how happy we are! This was not the case the next morning... We were totally loving our little camping experience and the nature around us until that night... Temperatures dropped and we really wished we would've gotten sleeping bags and air mattresses with our other camping gear. We tried to make it the whole night, but finally around 7 AM after barely being able to sleep the whole night, we gave up and sought the warmth and comfort of the RV. Obviously, we've gone soft and are used to the luxurious life of RVing....
We also spotted the next morning a baby tarantula just meandering around. That's when we decided to leave.
Grand Canyon was everything we had hoped it would be! This was one of the stops that we were most looking forward to and we had really wanted to backpack down to the river and back up. Unfortunately, because of our lack of time and resources, we're going to have to save that for our next trip. But we still had a wonderful time riding along the rim on the bike and enjoying the views of this majestic landmark.
For my first look of the Grand Canyon, Alex insisted I keep my eyes closed until we were on a lookout point right over the whole canyon. I tripped a few times and felt like I was going to fall off the ledge right into the Grand Canyon, but it was totally worth it! 
I couldn't believe how big the Canyon actually is. It definitely makes the world seem so much bigger and us humans so much smaller than what we normally feel. We also spotted an elk family and lots of candor birds. One of my favorite things was the painters hiding out on random ledges, painting the landscape. We also saw a park ranger on a Ruckus! Awesome!
We decided to take a little break from our hurried pace home and tried to get a campsite in the National Park. A big part of why we wanted to stay there was that we've had 80 - 90 degree weather almost all of the trip, and this was our first time we were actually cold the whole trip and we loved it! So everything was completely full, but we did find an amazing campground a few miles south of the park that was only 10 dollars a night and we had our own fire pit, grill and basically the whole forest to ourselves. It was amazing! 
Being in such a beautiful landscape we had to initiate all our camping gear that we got as wedding presents. So we brought out the tent, chair, hot dog sticks, propane lamp, coffee cups and thermos and that's about all we have. 
So we totally got into the camping spirit and bought hot dogs to roast over the fire, something I don't think I've ever done camping since our family likes to camp in style. And we brought out the super complicated card game we bought from the Amish and played it all evening, once we figured out how to! This is my attitude about camping. This is Alex's...
Look how happy we are! This was not the case the next morning... We were totally loving our little camping experience and the nature around us until that night... Temperatures dropped and we really wished we would've gotten sleeping bags and air mattresses with our other camping gear. We tried to make it the whole night, but finally around 7 AM after barely being able to sleep the whole night, we gave up and sought the warmth and comfort of the RV. Obviously, we've gone soft and are used to the luxurious life of RVing....
We also spotted the next morning a baby tarantula just meandering around. That's when we decided to leave.
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