8/24/13 - Grand Canyon National Park South Rim, AZ

Today we drove to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.  We drove scenic 180 on the way and passed a really small, pretty chapel.  We made a quick u-turn and stopped to see Chapel of the Holy Dove.  The chapel was built by Watson M. Lacy, M.D. in 1960.  He was the only physician at Grand Canyon Hospital that he operated with his wife.  He died in 1991.  In 1999 the chapel was destroyed by a transient’s fire.  The community rebuilt it in 2000.

We had been to the south rim a couple of times before and it has changed.  You can’t drive your own car anymore and now you have to take shuttle busses.  You have to take the blue line from the visitor center to get to the red line.  We walked from the visitor center to the red line along the rim of the canyon about 3 miles.  On the way back we rode the blue line back to the visitor center.  It made 10 stops around the village area but we didn’t have to get off.  It was cloudy all day because of the monsoon season and was raining off in the distance.  It never did rain on us though.  Just as we got back to the visitor center at 4:30 the sun came out a little and we got a few pictures.

We stopped at Flagstaff Brewing and had a beer and then drove back to camp.  The sunset was beautiful tonight.