After checking out, we drove North to the Grand Canyon (South Rim). The place was really busy. We went on the shuttle bus within the park and then did a short hike along the rim, 1.3 miles. The first photo shows people standing on Mather Point, giving a good idea of the scale. Photo 2 shows Jenny admiring another view into the canyon from the canyon rim trail. Picture 3 was taken here and is for Flo Hewitt who likes these aster flowers, which grow everywhere by the side of the road and beyond in all the states we have visited this time - they grow like weeds here. Photo 4 shows intrepid hikers on South Kaibab trail; the picture is greatly zoomed, even so we can't tell if they are on their way down or up. We left the Grand Canyon after our walk and just as it looked like a thunderstorm might be brewing. Drove South to Williams on old Route 66, where we stopped for coffee and home-made pie at Pine Country Restaurant - you would not believe the size of the pie portions, neither one of us could finish them, something new for Jenny and worth marking on the calendar. It will be a day she will be able to remember as it is also a friend's birthday. (She'll be toasting Noreen tonight, possibly with a margarita.) We are staying tonight in Williams. 
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