LA to Grand Canyon!

Today was a driving day from LA to the Grand Canyon! We said farewell to Dilys and the kids and then left to have breakky with Boon Piou at a pancake place called IHop. For USD 5.99 I got 2 strawberry pancakes, 2 eggs, 2 sausages, and a hash brown! There was so much we couldn’t finish our plate!

After breakky we said farewell to Boon Piou and plugged Grand Canyon into our GPS! We also plugged in an outlet store Boon Piou had recommended in a town called Cabazon. It took around 2hours to reach Cabazon and not long after leaving LA the landscape had already become desert like! At Cabazon we found the Desert Hills Premium Factory Outlet with around 100 genuine factory outlet stores!!! It looked like all the big names were here but we put a time limit on our shopping given the amount of driving ahead of us!

In the 1hr 15mins we were there we only visited 2 stores! I got some jeans and a top at the Levis outlet and Di got 2 pairs of shoes at the Sketchers outlet.

We got back in the car and off again we went! I drove for an hour before filling up and continuing another 3 hours along desert highways! One thing about American highways - they’re long, flat and dead straight for the most part! Shortly after crossing the California/Arizona border we stopped for a rest stop and Di took over the driving.

We reached the town of Williams around 6:40pm and grabbed some dinner at Rod’s Steak House yeah! Di ordered prime ribs and I ordered ground sirloin steak. Both dishes came out different to what we expected! Di’s ribs weren’t ribs at all but a cut of slow cooked steak. Mine was like ground up meat ie a burger patty, albeit with quality steak meat! Oh well! Both were not bad anyhow!

After dinner we headed up highway 64 towards the Grand Canyon National Park! The sun had already set and it was starting to get dark! It seemed like many more cars were leaving the park than heading towards it! After an hour or so we reached the entrance (which was unmanned so we didn’t have to pay the entrance fee!) and headed to the Grand Canyon Village and our accommodation for the night at Yavapai Lodge.

After checking in we drove our car round to the rooms themselves. Ours was a decent sized room with 2 queen sized beds and ensuite facilities! Not bad not bad! Nite!