Dave's right, this is coool-oh.
4:23:11 PM    comment []    

"Finding a room or camp site is not impossible, however. You just need to look beyond the park boundaries."

Really want to see the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, haven't been there as far as I remember (must ask Mom). I think camping at this spiritual-sounding site on the Rim will be too cold for us at this familial life-cycle stage, but I'LL BE BACK. And calls today to the The Grand Canyon Lodge hold no openings, although call-backs are encouraged (no waiting list...ah...warning, technical details incoming...skip to end of paragraph it not interested...an email waiting list would be just right for something like this...you sign up to the list and they send an email to the list when there is a cancellation...RSS subscription would be another killer method for doing this...I digress, sorry dear).

It looks like the closest place is Kaibab Lodge. (And I'm not giving up on the 'in the park' alternative.) From a rustic-sounding review...

"No canyon views, but its setting amidst majestic pines on the edge of DeMotte Park's serene, endless meadows holds a natural beauty all its own."

It's either that or a bigger diversion from plan that would somehow fit in the cool sounding (and equally as rustic) Cliff Dwellers Lodge, west in Marble Canyon. But they have good sounding eats (how's that for wordplay) at the Canyon Dreamers Cafe. And it looks like raft trips leave from there. It was a stop on the French Kids '99 world tour (damn they didn't play SD this tour). We might want to stay there two nights (instead of one in Page and one on the Rim) and see Glen Canyon Dam / Lake Powell and Grand Canyon North from there. Can we live with two nights of rustic?

Those DigitalCity.com - Phoenix folks got a lot o' good quick links. Right nice of 'em, I say.
4:00:02 PM    comment []  Google It!  

I went ahead and installed the software because it has some interesting sounding Web Wheel software. And I think that DF might use it on hers at work. The TrackMan is what she uses at work, so she's now got a second (and a third) Man at home. I'm going to give it a whirl too (partially because I'm kind of interested in this other little tracky thing for my future multimedia laptop...if that day comes). I'll let you know where this experiment in New, Live, Human Interface Device testing leads us, hopefully not to the chiropractor.

I must restart now. And do other productive things. Bye.
2:23:54 PM    comment []  Google It!