We arrived at Kev's aunt Ruth's house on monday afternoon hoping to get a bit of rest. However there was no rest for the wicked and we ended up fitting a storm door, which was quite fun, "three-dimensional work" as my dad usually says. The night ended with a nice campfire.
Day two at Ruth's consisted of golfing on a short 9-hole golf course, on the early part of the day. I've never played golf on a course before and only a few times on driving ranges, but it was still a lot of fun. We played the course twice, Paggy and Kev won one round each and ended up on the same score for the rounds altogether.
The late afternoon and evening consisted of an excellent BBQ at Tom and Kathy's, the food was definitely excellent.
Ruth has two dogs Tess and Angus, one big one smaller, and a horse called Razz. Both the dogs are really nice and playful. The third day we went to visit Razz, and we guys did some hard labour. It wasn't too bad at least that was what Kev, Paggy and I thought. Joe wasn't too happy cleaning in Razz' pen and filling it out with more gravel under the mats Razz stands on. Later that night we played a few games of a pool and darts, a lot of fun.
The next morning it was sadly time to leave Ruth, Tess, Angus and Razz and continued on our road trip.
On drive from Denver to the Grand Canyon we decided, after tips from two independent sources, thank you Sebastian, to stop at a small town called Moab. This is a small town with a population of 8,000 people, however from april-nov it grows to 80,000 such is the popularity of mountain biking and off road driving in the area, indeed Moab is often referred to as 'mountain bikers paradise'. We stayed at an excellent campground at the edge of the town, complete with swimming pool and jacuzzi.
The second day, waking up early as always in the tent we went on a bike rental hunt and eventually found a few medium sized bikes and a large sized bike for us all. To get the bikes to the trail the back seat of the car was removed, and used as a sofa for the rest of the night. The trail we went down is called the Slickrock trail. Paggy turned out to be a god of mountain biking compared to the rest of us. I've never done mountain biking before but managed quite well after a few tips, Kev was alright as well as he had done some before, Joe on the other hand had several comedy falls and one quite bad one resulting in a loss of confidence and ended up walking the down hills in the end. After all I think we all really enjoyed it. Another episode worth mentioning is the barbeque the first night which we had trouble getting lit up, only one solution; more lighter fluid. I wasn't quick enough removing my head from the grill and my hair smelled a little bit bad afterwards.
Exactly 2 weeks into the trip now and we've just arrived at Luxury Inn in Flagstaff, although I'm wondering why it's called Luxury Inn as it seems just like an ordinary Inn with unreliable internet. On our way to the inn Kev managed to follow up in Paggy's foot steps and went through a red light.
Earlier today we visited the awe-inspiring Grand Canyon and it really does look amazing! The views are simply stupendous and as everyone suggests it isn't possible to capture the canyon with any photograph or video. We took several stops along the road and got some great photos. We managed to get a brilliant photo of us jumping, take 2, with a little help from a Kiwi guy, which turned out excellent.
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