Here's a shot "before" I left: (We'll see if I look so well rested when I get back :)

Just got checked into the hotel near The Grand Canyon (TGC). Looks like they're doing a "park-n-ride" thing at the TGC. Pretty soon we'll be lucky if we can watch it on web-cam.

Weather was about as ideal as I could hope for, without disrupting the seasonal norm. Temperatures varied fro 68, when I left, to a high of 99. It floated between 97 and 99 pretty much all the way through Phoneix, and what seemed like half way to Flagstaff.

The following sequence is a left to right panorama, showing how the weather changed as I rode

up from Phoneix to Flagstaff... (This is facing west, so the left one is looking towards Phoenix, the right, more towards flagstaff.

Just north of Flagstaff, I also snapped a shot of the mountains to the north, (whose name escapes me, momentarily.)

I think I'll go try to walk near TGC, since I'm here. :) Perhaps some more pictures later.

~r