Last day Grand Canyon

Today (Saturday) is the day I bid fairwell to the Grand Canyon. This was my western “turn around” point and I have spent a full week here. The views are spectacular and is certainly a place I would recommend visiting.

I had a nice long chat with my campground host last night as he was making his rounds. A great guy from Maine who retired from the phone company after 30 years and now him and his wife do volunteer work for the park service which gives them a place to park their rv for the season. Sounds like a pretty nice gig if you can deal with the occasional pain in the ass.

I will spend my last day emptying out the Peace Train ‘77 (my camper) and reorganizing. I do find it easier the more time I spend living in it to keep items I frequently use easily accessible so I do not have to rearrange and hunt, every time I need something. I will say the pictures I have taken are amazing and the feeling I have here is very connected. I read that the native Americans do not think of balance of mind, body, and spirit, but oneness of this, oneness of all things. Very similar to the Buddhist concept of “the inter connectivity” of all things. When that is practiced in the moment, life immediately becomes balanced.

The weather this past week has been amazing and if this is how it is most of the year I can see why Arizona is such a hotspot. I am sitting at my site (early morn) and a cool wind is blowing, and while you would not detect autumn visually, the wind whispers that it is coming. I have tried to plan and coordinate my travel across America with the weather as to not run into anything to extreme, either hot or cold, and so far it has worked out perfectly. I head a little bit further south tomorrow to a place called Camp Verde, to spend a few days. Then explore some of the area and plan my next hop from there. Oneness in the moment! ☮️