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Tentatively sometime in between March 26 and April 3, there will be a road trip for my husband and I to...

GRAND CANYON!

All way from San Diego to Grand Canyon in Arizona. If you happen to live in between SD and Grand Canyon and will like very much to meet me, let me know!

We got one month to go to plan (eep)... We are thinking about bringing our camp stuff so if we can find a state park along the way so we can sleep there for cheap instead of a motel room. :)

If we are able to take one full week off (my husband has work so he has to kiss up to get some vacation), we will try to make a loop from SD to GrandCanyon to that four-state intersection and downward to Silver City in New Mexico then straight through Tucson to home, sweet home San Diego.

If not, we will just visit GrandCanyon and there.. here... New Mexico may be out of question. My husband has a very good friend living in Silver City.

If you got tips for which town to visit, suggestions of best food join along the road, which freeway to stay away, et cetera, POST AWAY! I need some help planning. :-X

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Grand Canyon, HERE I COME!
 
Grand Canyon gives me the creeps.... :cold:
It is whooaaaa so big and the height...

I was sooo scare of falling off the cliff. :eek2:

Good luck going there. :whistle:
 
I dont know if you will have time but I STRONGLY encourage you to visit Sedona!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sedona is this artisty, serene and funky town.

I fell in love with Sedona immediately when visited there for the first time. Everytime I go to Arizona, I make an effort to visit Sedona. It is northwestern part of Grand Canyon.
 
Gnarly,
don't know how much you've researched/planned this, but...
I was stuck in Flagstaff for about 10 days in May '02. Decided to make the best of it and rented a pickup truck w/BF. Had seen a lot of places, but never there before. It is MAGNIFICENT!!!!! :jaw:

Reason I mention research is when we went to the North Rim (which I strongly encourage you to get to if you can), the season had just opened on that side. You have to remember primary access to both North and South sides is at elevation & usually anything over 4000 feet is generally susceptible to precipitation conditions, i.e. snow, ice.

South Rim is the most traveled via footpaths, and there are few handrails or anything to protect you from going over the edge. I had vertigo & the fact of no recovery from falling made me a little skittish...

BUT it is absolutely the most amazing thing. All those photos I've seen of the Grand Canyon I thought were aerial shots. UH-UH. They were taken from a standing-on-the-edge vantage point.

North Rim is cool, it has a lodge that suffered a fire and was rebuilt. There is a restaurant there, as well as individual cottages (cost $100.00/night then & already reserved. We arrived there late & slept in truck against policy :roll: ). There is an outdoor fireplace big enough for me to stand in. The main lobby area of lodge has 15' high windows with a spectacular view.

BTW, when you leave Flag from I40 you can take 180 north to the South Rim. A few miles out of town on the right side there is the coolest small church. It's a low A-Frame, one entry, floor-to-ceiling windows that face east for Sunrise. Non-denominational, open to all. If you get a chance, check that out too. People who've visited have left notes of remembrance/worship/wedding announcements tacked to all the walls & a visitor's ledger. Not tacky at all, despite how it sounds.

You will be travelling through Indian Nation Territory when you go to the North Rim, so you will see different kinds of Law Enforcement cars. Also, Native Americans sell jewelry on their territory & you can find some nice pieces if you're of a mind (I didn't - didn't have the extra $$ & it was sad in that some of these pieces found in Territory stores were family pieces pawned, never recovered & sold ).

Anyway, hope that helps. If you want to stay in Flagstaff & do day trips into the Canyon, the Howard Johnson's was the cheapest place to stay. Run by Middle-Easterners though & had trouble as an American getting through to them. May is considered tourist season, ergo, in their minds (because it was warm in the daytime), it was time to turn off the heat, LOL. Had to pester them for a portable heater. It was 35 deg at night!!.

If I remember anything else I'll post it for you. Have a great time!!

Suzie
 
P.S. - Sedona is cool. Just so expensive I didn't even want to stop the truck there. ;)
 
Bad news

The trip is cancelled. :-(

Time, budget, et cetera.. I have a big paper to turn in on Monday after my spring break and my husband's co-workers won't switch the shifts so he can leave early... and we wanted to go many more places than we can afford -- money-wise or time-wise! So we had agreed that we will save it later and go to all of those places in one trip (included Grand Canyon).

Foo it all.

So our plan "B" is... to act like TOURISTS IN SAN DIEGO! Go to thsoe dorky tourists spot downtown, eat at NICE resturants, camp around San Diego et cetera.
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SECOND ATTEMPT!

Yessire, my husband and I are off this thursday to Arizona to meet Deaf258 and check out the state of AZ!

We will drive to check out Yuma (eh) and arrive in Phoenix on Friday first thing in the morning. We will have stuff to check out (like Deaf258's Poi show!)...

Saturday is probably our tourist day- checking out hte musuems, vista points, and gardens.

On Sunday we will drive to Grand Canyon (and stopping by Sedona just to get a glimpse!) and back to Phoenix to rest up before leaving back to home on Monday morning!

Finally after one year, we are able to achieve this trip!
 
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