We woke up to a nice morning at Two Guns:


I intended to fly to Meteor Crater this morning, but the forecast for winds aloft didn’t look good, so I drove the motorcycle around:

I poked around Two Guns. This abandoned tourist attraction went out of business once Route 66 was closed:




The old Route 66 bridge:



Part of the old zoo:

I rode to the edge of Diablo Canyon:


We found a dead bison near the RV:


We continued west to Flagstaff, then north to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. Our first stop was an overlook of the Little Colorado River on the Navajo Reservation:


Next we stopped at Desert View on the South Rim. We were last here in 2011, so I thought we should see it again to compare it to North Rim, which we’re going to visit for the first time later today:







We drove back to the highway, then north to the river crossing at Marble Canyon, then west towards the North Rim. Nice views along the way:



After a steep climb, we arrived at Jacob Lake at 7,925 feet above sea level:


We unhitched the RV at the gas station and drove the truck towards the North Rim:

Our first stop at the North Rim was Point Imperial:






Bison along the road:

Our next stop was Cape Royal:














We drove back to the RV and overnighted there at the gas station. See the alternating yellow line on the trip map for today’s drive.
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