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.