Southwest road trip? Say what?!?
Yes, after I did those posts about my Next #1 and Next #2 itineraries, I started thinking about a different Next.
The Galapagos Islands.
Wait, what am I talking about? What do the Galapagos Islands have to do with a southwest road trip?
Well, I’m seriously thinking about Galapagos, but maybe next year. Or maybe by next year I’ll be ready to go back to Europe. 2016 is a milestone year for me, so I’ll definitely plan something spectacular. But I couldn’t let 2015 go by without traveling somewhere I’ve never been, and one of the places I’ve never been that’s on pretty much every list of must-see places is the Grand Canyon.
So today I booked a sixteen-day road trip for this coming May.
My itinerary is still in the planning stages. I’m locking in a few dates (because it’s already much too late to book in any of the lodges within Grand Canyon National Park), but for at least some parts of the trip I want to play it by ear and decide where to stay when I get there.
Here’s what I’m thinking so far:
| Day 1 | Fly to Las Vegas, pick up rental car, head to Tusayan via Hoover Dam Two nights at Red Feather Lodge |
| Day 2 | Grand Canyon South Rim |
| Day 3 | Drive to Flagstaff |
| Day 4 | Flagstaff and Sedona |
| Day 5 | Drive to Santa Fe Two nights at Guadalupe Inn |
| Day 6 | Santa Fe |
| Days 7 — 11 | northern New Mexico, southwest Colorado, eastern Utah, northern Arizona |
| Day 12 | Drive to Kaibab Lodge (two nights) |
| Day 13 | Grand Canyon North Rim |
| Day 14 | Drive to Zion National Park (overnight in Zion Lodge) |
| Day 15 | Zion, then drive to St. George, Utah |
| Day 16 | Drive back to Las Vegas, fly home |
I’ll post more before I go with some details about what I hope to see and do in all these places.
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