OurObozAdventures: Grand Canyon! The adventure continues.

Another highlight of our trip was going to be a mule ride in the Grand Canyon. Donna had been there, but I never have, although I have seen it a hundred times or more from the air. I can now say I've been to the Grand Canyon. Yet I've still only seen it from the air.

We live in the Houston, Texas area and tropical weather is not uncommon. So we planned this trip to the Grand Canyon and the Desert Southwest. Last place you would think of for a hurricane, right? What could possibly go wrong?! You guessed it. As we were leaving the Houston area on this little odyssey, a lady (and I use the term loosely) named Rosa was approaching the coast of Mexico as a full-fledged hurricane. So Rosa came ashore and worked her way north as we worked our way west, and we all met at the Grand Canyon on the same day. Of course, Rosa wasn't still a hurricane, but she still filled the GC up with fog and rain. We cancelled the mule ride, so, as it worked out, the only jackass Donna got to spend the day with was yours truly... Honestly though, we made the best of it and had a great time. We were on the much less populated North Rim and spent the day driving, hiking, and taking pictures. We did get a bit of good visibility here and there, sometimes up to 3/4 of a mile or so, but for the most part, the vis stayed around 1/4 mile or less.

The colors were incredible on the way to the park!

Donna on the balcony of the beautiful North Rim Grand Canyon Lodge.

The lodge from the overlook below.

One of the better views from the day...

Here's a picture Donna took of me. Note the plastic camera cover. It's another Montana product, a Rainsleeve, made by the folks at Op-Tech which is headquartered in Belgrade, just down the road from Bozeman. You can see the black gaff tape lens hood I fashioned with marginal success. I lost the plastic lens hood during the trip and had to fashion my own, which you can see in some photos as a little black patch in the corner of the picture.