Before we left Bluff, we drove out on the highway to photograph grooves carved in the sandstone by the original San Juan Mission pioneer wagons. The photo at the top is of one of the original wagons that helped carve those grooves. The hardest part of their journey was through a place called Hole in the Rock. They had to use dynamite and picks to carve a trail through a fissure in the canyon wall that would take their wagons down an incline that in the space of three quarters of mile lost two thousand feet in altitude. The only team of animals that would venture down with the first wagon were blind. Incredible!
We then traveled to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon and then on to Williams, AZ - the very last town bypassed by the intestate highway along Route 66.