[Note: this post wasn’t put together until February 2022 and was not based on notes, purely taken out of memory.]

We didn’t get out of Phoenix very early, as the time stamp on these old images showed us reaching this meadow near Flagstaff around 1:00 in the afternoon. With the Grand Canyon National Park so close to us, we have the luxury of late-day departures and still arriving at the canyon in time for sunset.

That’s Lookout Studio, designed by the inimitable Mary Jane Colter, meaning the building on the left, not the giant canyon in the background.

It’s too late to get very far down the Bright Angel Trail, but that’s okay, as sunset and dinner await us.

By this time, I was sitting on my hands in excitement as on this visit to the Grand Canyon, something extraordinary was in order, but Jutta wasn’t going to learn about it until the next day.