We enjoyed our three days at Camp Verde and did not want to leave so soon. But we had to go today in order to squeeze into The Grand Canyon RV park (Trailer Village). Next time around we will definitely stay longer in Camp Verde. Did not have a reason to believe that the Grand Canyon would be so busy this time of year - it's cold! We planned on just driving on up here and having no problem camping. Someone at Camp Verde told us we had better call ahead to reserve a space. Good thing we did! We wanted a five day stay and could only reserve a three day.

We arrived with snow and freezing rain spitting here and there, but no real significant amounts and no accumulation (as of 8:30pm). The forecast gets a lot better as the next couple of days pass. If we can book another night or two we might do so for the blue sky photo ops that are to come. There are a lot of people here! And it is spring break season! In addition, as we have seen in all visits to our National Parks, many groups of foreigners seem to always be touring at all times of the year. I simply can not understand how so many people would be here at this time. Being here in the "prime time" would have to be a "zoo".

The trails that go down below the rim are still icy and we are not equipped to venture into that territory so we will be limited to all the rim trails, bars, and restaurants. Oh Darn!

An assortment of pictures I downloaded off the camera today are below going back to San Carlos. As I said, the weather today was terrible here at the canyon, but some of the pictures turned out pretty good. Some sun tomorrow should provide great views! We had just a sliver of sunshine as we got to the park but could not pull over to park and take pictures. The view was amazing!


Jim and the girls taking a look at a view point in walking distance from our San Carlos RV park.

A new home almost completed being built on a hill top overlooking the Gulf in San Carlos. We could see it all lit up at night from the RV park and we walked up past it on our way to the view point above. Major bucks!!!!!!!

Heading to the border on our way home

The line-up. It took one hour in line before we got to the border.

One quick picture from our hike up Madera Canyon just north of our Amado RV park. It was a good exercise for the four of us.

All the following are pictures from our short visit to the rim today. It was cloudy, and rain/snow falling to the North, but the pictures are still worthy to share. We will not be able to put any pictures on the blog or verbalize what we see that will do the experience justice!