After spending a week in Williams, AZ at the Grand Canyon Hotel and RV park (and kennel) we had heard enough trains in the middle of the night. Great park, but too many trains. This hotel/RV park also own the Grand Canyon Railroad and are on contract to the National Park to run the train into the park everyday. They seemed to keep the RV park and hotel full most nights. We had a lot of fun in Williams at all the Route 66 restaurants, bars, shops, and art galleries.
So we left Williams on Monday morning and drove up the edge of the Painted Desert and through Monument Valley.
One of the oddities of this trip was, we became the tourist attraction during a lunch stop at Burger King. We stopped at the BK in Kayenta, AZ and it was a large one. They had several buses and RVs parked in the back in a big gravel lot. The buses were filled with vacationers from Switzerland and they had never seen a fifth wheel 40' long being pulled by a heavy duty pickup. So several of the tourist came up and took pictures of us and the trailer and had tons of questions.
We overnighted in Mexican Hat so we could have a steak at the Swingin Steak Restaurant. We got there early enough to get some photos of some of the rock formations on the edge of a thunderstorm. Made for some interesting pictures. I have those on Flickr.
On Tuesday we drove on to Dolores, CO and picked Priest Gulch RV campground on the Dolores river in the San Juan National Forest. We heard about the campground from new friends we made in Williams, AZ. Charlie and Jennie are also Montana RV owners. They also told us about a road trip to do up in southern Colorado; the San Juan Skyway. We will be doing that this week. More on that later.
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