Several times the lovely maidens found it necessary to do laundry while on their trip, and so for a day or so the motor home looked like a Chinese laundromat with the drying rack full of clothes and portable clothesline hung across the walking space of the motor home.
Before leaving their campsite in Las Vegas, the lovely maidens wanted to bid their neighbors goodbye, and they ended up spending an hour talking with the Carranzas. They were thrilled when Frances prayed for them before they left. The lovely maidens found it hard to leave their new friends and hope they will meet again in this life.
As they were on their way out of the campground, the lovely maidens were looking for, but unable to find the dumpstation so they could dump their wastewater. They discovered after asking a ranger that one must use the sewer hookup at one's campsite. So they pulled into a campsite next to an RV with slide-outs. Since Joanne was looking down while walking to get the dumping job done, she didn't see the slide-out and rammed her head into it twice. Raisa then put her hand on the slide-out to keep her from hitting it a third time, since it was apparent that Joanne didn't learn after one incident.
Before the lovely maidens left Las Vegas, they decided it would be wise to have the radiator flushed and new antifreeze added, since they were headed to the Grand Canyon, where the forecast was 13 degrees at night, and they only had water in the radiator. They found a small garage that Joanne thought would not be able to help them right away, so as they were attempting to turn the motor home around in the miniscule parking lot, the owner of the garage (a middle-aged Chinese man with broken English) came out and asked what they needed. Joanne told him and he said, "Oh, I can do that right now!" The owner's name was Chung, and the lovely maidens soon learned to appreciate him. In addition to flushing the radiator, Chung also checked the oil, the battery and the alternator. And in due time the lovely maidens were on their way.
And it came to pass that once again the lovely maidens arrived after dark and after the RV park office closed for the night (but you already know that because of the spoiler added in Chapter One) in Williams, AZ at the Grand Canyon Railroad RV park. This was a most deluxe campground with beautiful bathroom and laundry facilities, the maidens' criteria for declaring a campground "deluxe". There was snow on the ground, and it was VERY COLD!
In the morning, the lovely maidens boarded the train that would transport them to the Grand Canyon, a first time visit for both of them. The train ride was fun, albeit slow, but it was part of the experience for the day. There were actors on the train who held a train robbery, as well as talked to the passengers. Each car had a host who acted as a tour guide.
The Grand Canyon was spectacular! It was breathtaking for the lovely maidens to be surrounded by such an awesome display of the might and power of their Almighty God! The Grand Canyon was formed, as Joanne believes because of her biblical training and extensive study of the book of Genesis, by large amounts of water flowing under pressure during the flood of Noah. She cannot believe that the little trickle of water that flows at the bottom of the Canyon carved out the structure over millions of years. If this was so, every river would look like the Grand Canyon. We could also get into an extensive discussion about the age of the earth at this point, but back to the story of the lovely maidens...
The lovely maidens found it hard to breathe while walking since they were at approximately 8000 feet above sea level. When they arrived at the Canyon, the lovely maidens dragged thir backpack on wheels filled with enough food for a week and extra supplies they might possibly need along the rim (even though they only had 3 hours to spend at the Canyon before being required to reboard the train to head back) and took hundreds of pictures between the two of them. There was no such thing as a bad view, so it was slow-going to get to their final destination of Yavapai Observation Station, where they were told they would be able to see the Colorado River flowing through the Canyon.
To be continued...
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