Road Trip – Odessa to The Grand Canyon

Day 8 – Odessa to Deming

Today was a great drive, after a late check out (more mini golf!), we headed South to the Mexican border, the landscape  started to become more undulating as we followed the Texan / Mexican borders West.
Our goal was Tombstone, but by 5.00pm we called it quits and stayed at a place called Deming for the night.

Day 9 – Deming to Tombstone To Casa Grande

Today was only about a 3.5 hour drive to Tombstone. We arrived about 12.30pm and had lunch in an old salon.
At 2.00pm it was time to go and get our seats to see the daily gunfight being recreated at the O K Corral. All the characters were there, including Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday.

The town is purely touristy, but it was fun to have a look around. We drove out of town about 4.30pm to see how far we could get before dark. We ended up in Casa Grande (about an hour south of Pheonix) for the night.

Day 10 – Casa Grande to The Grand Canyon

Todays drive was only about 4 hours due North through Arizona to The Grand Canyon National Park. We arrived about 3.00pm and went straight to the Canyon for our first look. Entry to the park is $25 and gets you a 7 day
pass. We walked around part of the South Rim for about an hour (amazing), until the kids started to say thoes infamous words (Im bored, Im hungry, Im cold), admitedly it was starting to get cold, altitude is about 2500mtrs.

So we headed out of the park (the main town is about 5kms away) and found accomodation for the next 2 nights. Accomodation was slightly more, about $125p/n. We picked a big Best Western Hotel, with the usual free breakfast,
free wifi, gym, sauna etc. This one also had a 6 lane tenpin bowling alley in the basement!.