Ole Granddad of them all

Now that we have been in Utah for 3 days we are pretty darn close to being local. In fact this place is not as boring as one might imagine.....just because we are surrounded by a gazillion miles of rocks and forests there is seemingly some bad blood between the local prospects and the intruders or as they say in Wild Hogs "possers"!!! A couple of young guys renting one of the rooms here went out last night in search of some fun. I guess Utah isn't allowed to have any so they found a local bar right over the border in Arizona (about 10 miles away). One of the guys wanted to leave so he borrowed his friends truck and was followed by one of "Kanab's" finest and arrested and thrown in jail, conveniently placed across the street. Not sure if he ever got out but I do think that there are a few songs about that .....so beware of the towns that all the bars are in the next State!!!! Hell the maid was telling us that she was picked up for walking while intoxicated......Better keep a close eye on the Big Dog haha. Ahh but the weather here is perfect, yet again, and off we went to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. I read a quote that summed it up perfectly "dimensions are lost on the senses, and all you wind up with is a troubling sense of enormity" Talking about sheer dimensions - we were over 8,000 ft high - it was a mile straight down to the bottom and about 10 miles across - talk about WOW!!!! The visibility was well over 80 miles and all you could see was raw nature at its best!!! We ate lunch at the lodge and then sat out on the sun deck just looking out over this magnificent natural wonder...sure hope I will be able to remember this when I'm sitting in that old ladies rocking chair!!!!! Well for now it's cocktail time HIDDEN IN THE ROOM and off to dinner.....watchful flame and straight walking Big Dog