Thursday 10th November 2010……boy it was cold last night

well not in bed in Ramona but outside but the sun was shining when I got up at 8am…..after breakfast did a short drive on the north rim of the canyon to these sights,,

I just found out yesterday that the Navajo came from the northern part of Canada in 1500’s…

I love this above photo the ruins look like little match box houses!!!!

Then it was back on the south rim and time for my morning hike!!!

Heading down into that canyon!!!

It really was so beautiful down at the canyon floor and fertile also..

The magical ruins…

It was quite an experience to be here all alone with thoughts of what it must have been like all those years ago…quite special!!!

I have an Internet friend called Bill who has a great blog that I follow it is www.wanderingwillystravels.blogspot.com

and he came the same route from Vancouver that I have followed and he was on this same hike about 2 weeks ago.  He had a slip and fell a few feet and cut his chin quite badly and when he got to the ruins a Native lady helped him…well this is her Grandmother Winnie…

when I told her the story she remembered her Granddaughter telling her about the man who fell.  I gave Winnie a Canadian key chain and also one for her Granddaughter and bought a trinket too…small world!!

 

The climb up was not too bad and then I was on my way leaving behind all the amazing Canyons and special and wonderful places.

I drove for the rest of the afternoon and I am now in an RV park in an Native Casino just outside of Globe, Arizona.

I don’t normally like RV parks especially the 25 dollars I had to pay but I needed to do some last minute things for Ramona before I head across the border.  So in the morning it is filling up with gas, the cheapest so far at $2.71 a gallon, fill up with propane, empty then fill the fresh water tanks.  Then drive down to Tucson to do some last minute shopping meet up with Teri and her family and then head to Nogales on the US side late tomorrow night and cross over into Mexico bright and early Friday morning.

I will try and post when I can but at this point in time my thinking is to get two or three good long days of driving giving me a couple of beach days before I head into SMA………Best wishes to all.