Days 54 and 55 -- missing a few long days. Today, May 18. 2020

Yes, it has been a long 3 days, and there has not been a lot to share with myself.  Miles and miles of highways broken up only with stops for restrooms, lunch and gas.  There is not much in the way of cuisine out here. Every state is different but the folks in New Mexico seem to be the most strict with the COVID requirements.  It is really cool though that everyone that we have met along the way, in the hotels or the gas stations, with the exception of a very few, are observing social distancing and donning face masks.  I am so hopeful that all of this will prove to help all of us humans stay healthy and beat up this bug -- until science can help us with it!!

We have only eaten in one restaurant and that was in Texas at an outside patio.  the rest of the time we have had to purchase to go food and eat it in our rooms/car/park. 

Today was the brightest spot in our journey so far.  After spending the night at the Best Western in the Grand Canyon Village near the south entrance of the Grand Canyon National Park, we were treated to a 25 mile tour of the overlooks.  Because of the COVID, the park service is only allowing the public to enter the park from 6 am until 10 am.  You can spend the entire day there if you like, but you have to enter between those hours.  This is brilliant because it limits the amount of folks who are near each other. 

The day was perfect.  Temperature 70's with awesome blue skies.  Here are some pictures for your enjoyment.  I took so many and will have to delete tons off my phone.

As you can see the views were amazing!!  What an absolutely wonderful world we live in!  No one can take that away from us. No other country is as beautiful as ours is.  I have been all across it and I know that people who come from other places in the world would die to have this kind of vast beauty. 

We stopped along the way at a deserted Indian Craft Stand.  They are all deserted because of this COVID thing.  We wondered wether this was ordered by the state or just because of a lack of customers.  Either way, we were saddened by the economic blight that has reached here on the Indian Reservations because of this virus.

We chose to continue the beauty by taking the scenic route up Highway 89 North and crossed the border into Utah.  We arrived in Kanab around 6:00 pm, enduring yet another time zone change. 

Tomorrow, Tuesday, we press onto Ely for one more night on the road.