The pictures of
Day 2 of our rail journey across America fall naturally into three groups, two of which can be further divided thus:
- Williams, Arizona: Morning and Evening
- The Grand Canyon Railway: Northbound and Southbound
- The Grand Canyon
Let's take Williams first.
Williams, Arizona
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Lila had not known of Smokey--or his song--until now. It was love at first sight. |
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The Pine Country Restaurant, home of good eats and nice people.
(The rising sun off-camera to the right has washed out the upper floor.) |
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Another satisfied customer. (Note how she's bundled
up--Williams is at 6,766 ft [2,062 m] above sea level) |
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Maybe the very first group selfie of the trip. The steam locomotive
behind us was a humbug: we traveled behind a diesel to the Grand Canyon. |
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A beard buddy from the Wild West Show
(photo by Lila) |
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Lila posed with a couple more of the show's stars. The one on
the left had fewer lines, and is thinking about calling his agent. |
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More tomfoolery to keep the customers satisfied--and from sleeping in
the lobby, disrupting the guests, and making the employees nervous. |
Meanwhile, that evening at the Grand Canyon Hotel, "Arizona's Oldest..."
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The iron bedstead, quilting, fan: acceptable. But the bear? Too much. |
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Lila relaxes amongst the kitsch after the first day of hard campaigning. |
On the Railroad
The Grand Canyon Railway, that is...
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Yet another selfie, this one giving a sense of the vintage car's interior |
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This guy seems to be having a little too much fun
(and so does the pilgrim behind him). |
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Nevertheless, Lila later succumbed to the exhaustion caused by our early-morning arrival. |
And on the return trip...
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Trouble seems to be brewing off the starboard stern. (Photo by Lila) |
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Just as I suspected: a bandanna-wearing old guy with nothing to do all day. |
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I think Williams needs a senior center--for the pseudo-bandits and most of the passengers.
(That's who you'll see after school starts and before the bad weather sets in, though!) |
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Another teasing loco, this one up at the Canyon. |
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And this is the one that actually dragged us. Not actually shiny new either. (Photo by Lila) |
The Canyon was Truly Grand
I will spare you the eight million or so inadequate shots we took of the Canyon itself, and concentrate on what was happening along our part of the South Rim.
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I bought a belt in this gorgeous vintage building--for $56! I had bought a new pair of jeans at
Target before we left home. They fit fine--at first. Then, as they relaxed, they started
dropping without warning. I think the folks around me would agree that $56 was a pretty
small price to pay to spare them that! (Maybe I should have taken up a collection for The Cause...) |
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Dances were held among the more easterly shops. |
I won't usually post food pics, but Lila remembers the lunch at Bright Angel Lodge
as one of the best of the trip--if not in her life! I guess her first experience
of Southwest cooking was a success. The wrap was hers, the quesadilla mine.
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To the west, a photography studio operated by brothers Ellsworth and Emery Kolb from 1904 to 1976.
(Photo by Lila) |
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Art for sale inside the Kolb Studio. (What else? Photo by Lila) |
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Lookout Studio was built in 1914 by the Santa Fe Railway to compete with the Kolb brothers. |
And now the obligatory photos of someone standing in front of a landmark:
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Fashion statement? Or protection from the
brutal sun at high altitudes? Why not both? |
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Attempting to look blase while standing close to the edge |
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"What's that you say? There's a one-mile
drop behind me? No big whoop!" |
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