Monday 16th - day 27. Flagstaff to Grand Canyon to Navajo National Monument, Monument Valley. Well, that was a very short night! Despite this we all seemed to wake up easily enough considering it was 4.45am! It was very dark outside - the stars and a fine sliver of a crescent moon seemed very bright. We drove the hour or so to Flagstaff airport, and Chris checked in. After fond and sad farewells and many hugs we waved Chris off and watched his plane take off t...

Off exploring 15/10 Sunday 15th October - day 26. Las Vegas to Hoover Dam and Grand Canyon. We set our alarms early. Partly because we had a long drive today, and partly because we wanted to remove ourselves from the Flamingo Casino employees parking lot before the daytime parking attendant turned up for work. The car park was quite busy. Groups of workers coming and going - presumably the night staff leaving and the day staff arriving. We provoked a couple of...