Back to cities, cars, cell phones, computers, email, schedules....eeek!!! We are trying to take some time each day to slow down and remember the canyon; the tall walls, the morning sun, the call of the canyon wren echoing down the river and the slap of the oars hitting the water as we near the next fun rapid!!! Yes we are back from the Grand Canyon and we had a great time. We were blessed with great spring weather, only one rainy day which only brought more colorful flowers. The group was great, 16 people from New York, Connecticut, Idaho, Montana and Utah. 5 rafts, 6 kayaks and some great passengers getting to know river life for the first time... what a place to learn.
Our trip started with a rainy rig in Salt Lake, we drove off after the rig and camped near st. george only to wake up to 5 inches of snow on our sleeping bags!!! All i could think was... oh dear i have to go boating in this?!! but luckily that was the last we saw of the fluffy white stuff. We met up with some folk in Flagstaff and spend the day driving around Flagstaff trying to buy 40 cases of beer for the trip (thats a lot of beer). With beer in tow we met the rest of the party at the put in and the adventure began.
Every day was filled with its own excitement, beauty, peace and individuality and together they made a wonderful trip... we are ready to go back!!!
We took out on March 28th and have not stopped moving since!!! The day began with the final 5 mile float, soaking up as much canyon as we could cause once we hit the boat ramp the derig began. Once the truck was loaded we drove to flagstaff, loaded the next truck and began the drive back to Salt lake. We like to pack the fun in so we gave ourselves less than 24 hours to pack up our stuff and be in Moab for john's new job....well we made it...tired but settled in the single wide trailer in Moab.... you all come on down and see us.
