In Search of Home!

 It's gettin' pretty deep out here: 



 
We've decided to head back to the west and this is the road out.  Lookin' pretty tricky, eh?  It's really not too bad.  Never once did we go slip-sliding away.  It was so tolerable in fact that Granpa decided to stop at the main Visitor's Center for a potty break.  I'm still having a wonderful time!

But Granpa decides to continue on just a bit further west to the head of the Bright Angel trail.  Here we find the herd of mules and donkeys that carry folks to the bottom of the Canyon.  Now, the building behind these animals is a barn, and you'd think that the caretakers would move the whole lot of them into the barn - but if you know horses you know that they seem to fare better in their natural habitat even when it's a blizzard.  You do know that the American west is overrun by wild horses, donkeys, and mules, don't you?  The Bureau of Land Management let's folks "adopt" them as a way to minimize the herds.  But my point is, those wild animals are flourishing without a barn.  They don't need humans to fret over them - in fact, if you tossed a blanket on them they might end up with pneumonia!  I know it sounds goofy, but believe me, these guys are just fine even though they're coated with snow.

This is the end of the road, so to speak, of our quest for snow.  Granpa heads back east, then south, and west over to Kingman.  We count it as a very successful day!

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