Our stay in the Grand Canyon at the El Tovar Hotel was very enjoyable. However, our hiking was limited. My leg swelled up from a fall on the top of Pikes Peak. I can recommend the North Country Healthcare Clinic at Grand Canyon in case you are in the need of medical attention. After a checkup and antibiotics, we left the Grand Canyon for Williams, AZ.
What happened at Pikes Peak? Lynne wanted to take a picture of me next to the Pikes Peak summit sign. While stepping up on the rock platform, I held the camera in my right hand and the tripod in my left. After my next step, I feel onto the rock causing a bloody left shin and knee. All the while, I held the camera in the air to prevent any damage.
Williams, AZ turned out to be a gem of a small town on Route 66 where some locals staged a gun fight. Thecowboy wanted 2 bucks for Lynne’s ransom. But I told him that I was broke from my North Country Healthcare Clinic visit.
On the way from Williams to Phoenix, we stopped at Sedona and Jerome. We were not shopping for trinkets or artwork and also, we decided not to hike in the hills surrounding Sedona. Unfortunately, we found the city too commercialized and moved onto Jerome, an intriguing old mining town that we liked very much.
After visiting friends for a few days in Phoenix, we were off to Los Angeles for a ten day visit. We attended a conference on Jewish Genealogy and visited my daughter, Vikki. We stopped for gas at Chiriaco Summit, CA in the middle of nowhere where we discovered the General George S. Patton Memorial Museum to commemorate his training camp in the CA desert during WWII.
The significance of our visit to the Queen Mary at Long Beach, CA is my cruise from New York to Cherbourg, France in 1963. That was my first trip to Europe.
We started our trip back east from Los Angeles. Our first stop was Yosemite National Park which turned out not to be so great. After spending a half a day driving thru the park on roads that were under construction, we arrived at the Wawona Hotel in Yosemite. This place dates back to 1901. While it is supposed to be a charm of place, the temperature in our bedroom as well as outside was 99 degrees. We had an inside room with no ventilation other than a fan in the window which faced the hallway and just circulated the hot air. Not wanting to spend another night here, we headed for Lake Tahoe in Nevada.
As we continued northeast towards Yellowstone National Park, our stay in Park City, Utah was a good days rest from driving. This restaurant may not look like much, but we had a great meal here.
Our stay at the Lake Yellowstone Hotel was one our better eating experiences and I would say not typical of the rest of the places to stay in the Park. While we got to see the Old Faithful Geyser and other geysers along with the wild life, most of our time was spent driving from one part of the park to another. This is one place where you really need a week if you want to hike and see the wildlife.
Our stay in Rapid City, South Dakota to visit Mt. Rushmore and the Crazy Horse Memorial was relaxing as we were only 45 minutes from both. We were more impressed by the Crazy Horse Memorial than Mt. Rushmore.
We spent the next few days driving on US90 heading east towards St. Louis, MO and seeing a thousand of miles of corn fields. We stopped at the Corn Palace, SD but this was a bust, as we could not even get corn-on-the-cob. We finally settled for popcorn which tasted very good. In fact, none of the restaurants sold cooked corn-on-the-cob. I guess that corn is the last food that the locals want to see during meal time.
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