We are currently going north on Hwy 89 after leaving Prescott.  I decided I could write my blog up in a Word document and then copy and paste it into my blog tonight at the hotel.  There is just not much time when we get to our hotel at night after eating supper. 

We have had a delightful trip.  We’ve seen so much and not really wasted a minute.  I will catch you up on our last couple days.  We were at the Grand Canyon for Wednesday night and Thursday morning.  You could say that isn’t much time spent but it began early. We had booked a sunrise tour at 6:30 a.m. However, when we got up (at 5:00 a.m.) it was so foggy you couldn’t see much.  So they cancelled that tour.  We then substituted with the Hermit’s Rest tour and it was to depart at 9:00 a..m.  We hadn’t eaten yet so we had breakfast and while eating the fog lifted.  Thank heavens.  After going so far we may not have been able to see it.  This had not crossed my mind!  As it ended up the tour we went on was a much longer tour and we had a  good bus driver that gave us a good history class of the Canyon.  We left for Prescott at 12:30 or so and got to Aunt Pat’s at 3. She had coffee waiting and gave us a tour of her home. 

Prescott is a pretty town with a lot of western culture and history.  A resort town for the most part with little shops around the courthouse square that we enjoyed browsing through.  Aunt Pat’s home is absolutely beautiful.  She has a kitchen with a window view that takes your breath away.  She has the mountain at Flagstaff in the middle of her view which has snow on the top.  Very picturesque.  (Big word uh Jocie!) We enjoyed her stew that night and ate lunch at the Palace café today.  The café has a saloon feel with the swinging doors and a massive bar that dates back to the late 1800’s.  I guess that main street had a fire in the early 1900’s and the people in the saloon hauled out the bar, liquor cabinet and piano out to the courthouse lawn and continued to play, ”We’ll have a hot time in the town tonight”, as the fire burned on.  We enjoyed our visit with Pat. She has lost Uncle Stan, her sister and just in January her brother-in-law.  I think we will try to visit again in the future.

We left Aunt Pat’s around 3 and made another stop David learned was close to us in Prescott.  The Gunsite Academy.  You boys are probably familiar, I was not but I can see him loading up the camper and coming down here to one of their classes.  I must admit it would be cool. So we won’t get far down the road today but that’s okay.  We will put in a long drive tomorrow.  We plan to stop at Needles CA for the night.  The area between Bakersfield and Needles looks pretty bare and that would involve a lot of night driving.  We have done no night driving yet.  Just wait…when we head for home it won’t matter.

Love and starting to miss all of you.