An year ago, I paid off my time for my vacation to Arizona during the time my blog was absent. I thought I'm going to throw the dramatic story what I had an memorable day of my vacation in Arizona.
A day before, my friend and I arrived the hotel for two nights in Flagstaff, Arizona, about hour drive from Grand Canyon. We saw the amazing mammoth green full of pine trees in highest peak of mountain (13k feet above the sea level). We arrived to rest for a night.
Checked the weather forecast, learned that there will be cold and rain for a whole day in Grand Canyon area. I am kinda very depressed with this forecast, and decide to stick the plan.
A day in the morning, we were about to left the hotel and we cannot see Flagstaff mountain, it is covered the gray clouds. The rain came and made us feel chilly, cold and wet. Drove to Grand Canyon South Rim from Flagstaff in the rain all the way.
Touching Grand Canyon is my first experience in western national park of United States of America. As I came out to look the Grand Canyon vista, I see the zero-visibility in Grand Canyon. I am very depressed I thought myself to miss the fabulous view in Grand Canyon.
We decide to stay here for few extra hours, took bus to ride around few miles on south rim, been to visitors center, small museums and shops to keep us cozy and dry. We are under the umbrella all the time while we're outside. We discussed and decide to leave the Grand Canyon, we returned back to the bus to starting point (where we parked our automobile), we saw the first time in the day: the sunlight came out from the clouds. I am hoping to see the better visibility in Grand Canyon vista zone area. We just got out the bus, walked faster, and we came to see the most amazing vista I ever faced in my entire life.
The clouds, fogs are about to fade away slowly, we stayed few extra hours watched in full of vista and snapped lot of photos. I couldn't be happier what I witnessed.
As we left Grand Canyon on beautiful evening day, and a drove half hour before return back to Flagstaff, we saw the snow first time on highest peak of mountain in Arizona!
What a downside and upside. A. best. afternoon. vacation. day. I. ever. seen.
UPDATE (9/19/2007 9:50 PM EST): To view several photos I took, take me to my Flickr site tagged with Grand Canyon.
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I am glad you stayed with the plan, these are beautiful images.
Posted by Diane | September 18, 2007 11:25 PM