May 28, 2022, Saturday. Grand Canyon South Rim, day 2

 Today is shuttle bus day. We take the shuttle bus along the west rim towards Hermit’s Rest, stopping at the viewpoints along the way. It takes all morning to get to Hermit’s Rest. Get to a viewpoint, disembark, take some pictures, catch the next bus that comes along, stop at the next viewpoint, and repeat until we reach the end of the line, where we eat our lunch.

At one of the stops we get into conversation with a lady about our travel, something like this: “Have you been to Page? You must go to Page. There is the Horseshoe Bend, very scenic. It’s in the Colorado River. But really, you must do the Antelope Canyon. Oh, it is so beautiful! You really need to go. You don’t want to miss it.” Page is not in our schedule, but we can consider it.

I read up on both attractions and it looks like both require a fair amount of walking. That could be a problem. And the price of the Antelope Canyon is more than it is worth to us, something like 65 dollars or more for each of us. So I pretty much give it up.

After our lunch, we take the shuttle back to the central visitors’ center and change busses to go to a couple viewpoints to the east. One of the stops is the trailhead for the South Kaibab trail that leads to the bottom of the Canyon and on to the North Rim. Down the trail 0.9 mile is the "Ooh Aah Point," with a drop in altitude of about 600 feet. Gloria is not eager to go, but Joe is, and so she reluctantly agrees to go. And we made it down and back up, "slowly but surely." She promised to never do another hike like this again.

By now it is time get some dinner and return to our room for the night.