Las Vegas 2012 ~ Grand Canyon Trip

Day 3

Today we ventured outside of Sin City to the Grand Canyon South rim.   We left the hotel @ 5am.

 We decided on a short side trip to Seligman Arizona  one of the stops along Route 66. We ate breakfast at a Diner I found on Yelp called West Side Lilo's Cafe.  

Ron ordered "those potatoes" along with biscuit & gravy

OMGosh that one biscuit took up a whole plate.

  I ordered the Route 66 special -eggs,"those potatoes", huge thick pieces of bacon & two pancakes the size of Ron's biscuit!  It all tasted wonderful, including the coffee.



After we finished eating we took some photos of an old drive-in with much memorabilia of old Route 66 days.

We arrived at the entrance to the Grand Canyon 2 hours later.

Our first stop was Mather Point, the views were breathtaking.

Next, we took a short hike along Bright Angel Trail..more challenging than it looked, especially when we had to go uphill.

We stopped along the rim towards Hermits Rest then took the bus back to our car.  Each stop was more spectacular than the one before.  I wished we had stayed overnight to see more. On the way back we decided to make a quick stop at Hoover Dam for some pictures.

It was a very long, but scenic drive to and from Las Vegas.  It took 15 hours round trip. If I did it again, I would put out the money to stay overnight, just too long in a car IMHO.