Anyways, today we met a fellow bike tourer! His name is Dave and he's riding from Phoenix, AZ to British Columbia. Did I mention he's from Australia? I guess he's on a year long vacation in the states, the first part of which was spent on Vail, CO working at the resort and snowboarding every day.
We met him pretty early in the day, on the climb out from Ash Fork towards Williams. We slowed down as we caught up to him so we could chat for a while and ended up spending the whole day together. He's actually filming some interviews to make a documentary so we filmed a quick interview as we sat in front of a Safeway to eat lunch.
The rest of the day was pretty unremarkable. We rode together towards the Grand Canyon, making it to about 25-30 miles from the south rim. We spent some time looking for a spot to sleep on the side of the road, but came across the Flinstones Campground and knew we should stay here. 
A six pack of beer and some dinner later and we're sitting around playing Dave's guitar and shooting the shit. Now it's time for bed and the Grand Canyon awaits us tomorrow!
Is that the same Flinstones place where we had lunch on our way home from the Grand Canyon years ago, that had a little Flintstones "theme park" in the back? I can't remember if that place had a campground, as well, but it looked very much like your photo...
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