I'll admit it-- I like bashing Microsoft(TM). Every time one of their programs crash, I gleefully send them an error report. But they almost got me back on the way to the Grand Canyon. Take a look at this fastest recommended route from Streets & Trips 2007...
Notice how those clever Microsofties have routed us through the Hualapai Indian Reservation? Cle-ver, Microsofties! Except that...
...turning North on IR 19 (That's Indian Route one-niner) we read a sign that says, "Frazier Well, Thorton Lookout, Youth Camp, Supai Parking Area, ..." Nothing about Grand Canyon NP! And look at that road-- You think many tourists pass by that-a-way? So we put the selector in 'R' and backed on outa there.
It was nightfall by the time we finally got to Williams, where all the other pale-faces were having themselves a rodeo weekend. We decided for no particular reason to check out this Mexican Restaurant (well, one particular reason is that Edna's a Mexican girl) but not being too observant even yet, we failed to notice the name of the joint...
Get that? The senorita is holding a menu that reads, "Pancho McGillicutty's Mexican Cantina!" With a picture of the Gloucester Fisherman?! In... Arizona??
:C&W music: "Uh got some... water-front property in Air, uh, zona, ..."
Well, shoot, even that senorita didn't even speak a lick o' Mexican herself! (I had Edna test 'er out!) The food was real good, though...
I'll bet there was plenty of Espaniol going around back in the kitchen.
Well fed and lubricated, we camped for the night in a vacant lot next to one of the local motels, it being midnight and all, and prepared for the one hour drive into GCNP the next morning.