Geronimoooooooooo...

Today we started with a bit of geography - all here before i forgot! Geronimo was the name of the Chief who resided in the area and has since had a mountain named after him (Chief Mountain), if you look at it the right way you can see a chief's face! The Grand Staircase is the area of table top mountains in this location. The Grand Canyon is in the middle of this area, of which the oldest rock at the bottom of the Grand Canyon is 1.4 billion years old! Technically the Grand Canyon is only 6 million years old when the river carved it. (Obviously this is all according to the guide so please don't string me up if I'm a year or two out!)


As we left the Phoenix area we saw the last lonely Sagurai cactus - made me reminisce about Charlie my cactus - he had a hard life and travelled widely, not as comfortably as the Sagurai i might add - before coming to an end after about 4 years. A short but hopefully happy life - not a patch on 165 years.

Red Rock Country and the Bell rock formation was our first stop. The Bell is a vortex which is an area that has increased energy flow form the earth. Even the plants have been given healing areas! Apparently Stonehenge is also a vortex. After stopping at the ranger spot we headed to Sedona. A quaint little place surrounded by amazing scenery. Streets lined with art and water sprays and fantastic rock formations all around.











We then headed to the highlight of the day - the Grand Canyon, south rim. Unfortunately we were too late to see Obama but at least it made our journey easier to get there! That would have been awesome though, he is off to Phoenix tomorrow but at least we were in the same state! What can i say though - no words can do the Grand Canyon justice, nor can photos. We walked on a trail down into the canyon and of course i went rock collecting. Sarah was at one with nature - birds, lizards and a cute little cartoon like squirrel, it was like a different person.






















This place will continue to keep me in awe - and to say we stayed in lodges at the Grand Canyon is something you would seldom experience. Tonight i will definitely sleep appreciative of where i am and what we've seen! And it's only going to get better!!!