Thursday, April 30, 2020

The Grand Canyon- Part 1


 In these COVID19 days of quarantine- 
I am thinking back to our trip to the Grand Canyon.
This was in Feb 2020- 
but somehow right now, 
that seems like a life-time ago.
So today, a bit of time to relive that great trip.
The Grand Canyon was carved by the 
Colorado River in Arizona. 
It is 277 miles long, up to 18 miles wide, 
and attains a depth of over a mile - 6, 093 feet.
The Pueblo people considered the 
Grand Canyon a holy site, 
and made pilgrimages to it. 
The first European known
 to have viewed the Grand Canyon 
was Garcia Lopez de Cardenas from Spain 
who arrived in 1540.
U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt
 visited the Grand Canyon in 1903,
and established the 
Grand Canyon Game Reserve in 1906.
Later the National Parks Association 
was begun,
 but land and mining claim holders would block this
 to become a U.S. National Park for 11 years.
Finally on Feb. 26, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson
 signed it into law as the 17th National Park.
I was last here in the summer of 1984.
I never saw anything of the Grand Canyon.
There was a temperature inversion 
and the whole canyon was
filled with fog. 
Even walking to the edge,
 I never saw anything of it.
We bought postcards to see it.
This visit was not disappointing.
It was a clear, brilliant blue sky day.
The colors changed throughout the day
and some spots were splashed
 with the white of snow.
Judging distance becomes altered a bit.
Its seems like the layers were just 
scooped on top of each other,
 then leveled out with a knife.
John at the rim.
John and Council of Presidents comrades-
Dave, Paul and Greg.
Connie with Pat, Cindy and Edith.
John and Connie
We visited the Grand Canyon together,
stayed in Williams, Arizona 
and we laughed a whole lot together.
My friend Pat- 
the other leader for Visual Faith Ministry
Fun to hang out 
and experience life together. 
We were thankful to see the beauty
 of the Canyon together and are
blessed by many fun memories.
On this days of isolation, it is fun to
"revisit" the trip.

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