The views as we were leaving Kingman. The butte with yellow wild flowers and Kingman from a distance. We went to Grand Cavern Caverns and camped. The bus in our spot.
There is a dino mini golf and a dinosaur crossing. John on the world's largest dinosaur saddle and a horse saddle. The dinosaurs are bigger.
Cowboy bathhouse, arizona guard dog, a sign at the trail to the RV park that says rough uneven terrain, proper footwear required. Among other things no high heel shoes. Watch for snakes and holes. Like anyone would go somewhere like that in high heels! We are at a Route 66 attraction.The front of the restaurant/gift shop, caverns tour building. Kingman had the Route 66 park and motel. A lizard in camp.
John and I in the photo cutout, a certificate that says there is paranormal activity here. We didn't see any. A couple signs from the gift shop, If at first you don't succeed , do it the way your wife told you and I can still remember when I was smarter than my phone. When they first did tours here in 1927 the owner would lower people down on a rope into the natural entrance, down 21 stories with matches and a kerosene lantern. People stumbled around in the cavern and then they pulled them out on the rope. Sometimes if the people were down too long they forgot they were down there and left them over night. The town people called it the Dope on a Rope. Some flowers seen around the campground, include a huge bed of iris.
An antique fire engine with a sign that says fire truck rides daily. John declined, he said he spent 30 years doing that. You can also spend the night in the cavern, it is pretty pricey. Rain clouds rolled in so there was no sunset colors tonight.
Today we toured the Grand Canyon caverns. You start by taking an elevator 21 stories below the surface. We walked on paved walkways, through tunnels and up and down stairs. The cavern is also a bomb shelter. There are supplies for 2,000 people in the event of a bomb. Some formations in the cave including a rock dog to guard the people spending the night in there.
The snowball palace and the guide Ethan showing us the inside of one of the geodes that make up the snowballs. They have another tour called the Mystery room tour, where you get to wear hard hats and crawl around in the dark unimproved part of the cave.
This is the grand cathedral room. It has the bedroom for people spending the night and an area where you can get married with auditorium seats. We saw the petrified bobcat that fell in the cave in the 1850's, a replica of a great sloth that fell into the cave also. When they found the bones they thought they were dinosaur bones, so they first named the caverns Dinosaur caverns. They were disappointed it was only a sloth. He left scratch marks on the walls trying to get out. grape clusters, crystals on the walls of the cavern and a sign that says for visiting us in the middle of nowhere and the caverns re an arizona natural wonder in continuous operating since 1927.
This is the Grotto dining room. We bought a package of the tour and lunch in the Grotto with two other couples who were very interesting. Us at our table. We got lunch that they cooked upstairs and sent down on the elevator 21 stories. I had the Cavern burger and John had the jalapeno burger. You also got 2 adult beverages and all you can eat dessert. So we had an appetizer of dessert waiting for our burgers. And our 2 drinks and another dessert. We wanted to get our money's worth. I don't usually have wine with lunch, so we went home and took a nap and listened to rain on the roof.
I walked around before dinner and saw these plants and things. Agave plant with claret cup cactus in bloom, Many agaves, one with a tall dead bloom and one just starting the big stalk, yuccas, yellow flowers, Mormon tea blooming, and the claret cup cactus blooms.
Purple flowers, vetch, curved log and a rock on a post. These were on a stalk, the top with the buds and the flowers below. White crypanthia.
Sunset was a kind of narrow slit below the rain clouds. The sun briefly looked like saturn with it's rings.
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