Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

McKinnon visits Grand Canyon

Last years Rotarian president Ed McKinnon presented a musical slide show at the Gurdon Rotary club meeting on July 13, showing the highlights of his vacation to the Grand Canyon.

McKinnon said he stayed in Williams, Ariz., about 55 miles form the Grand Canyon, and was gone from Gurdon between June 18 and June 25.

"I took an airplane out there and rented a car," he said. "It is worth seeing. I enjoyed where I was staying too. Williams is just a little bigger than Gurdon. The big attraction is it does have four motels."

McKinnon, a funeral director at Hornes in Gurdon, said he checked out the Arizona cemeteries while on vacation and "they were full of pine trees and no graves were in line."

McKinnon said more than four million people visit the Grand Canyon per year.

"I met some mountain men and one mountain woman, and I met a couple from Germany," he said.

McKinnon said he drove through one desert town with the temperature registering at 112 degrees at 10 a.m.

"Williams and the Grand Canyon area itself were at a much higher elevation, with the temperature around 89 degrees and comfortable," he said.

McKinnon said he did not hike down the side of the canyon but got a good look at it from many angles.