Arizona – Austin Bunton Designs

Having endured miserable road-trips and company here years before, I was blown away at how much better and amazing things got when I was invited to experience its legendary canyon.

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Table of Contents:

Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
Initial/Overall (Images Begin — parent-category for many of the following)
Maps
Airport
Hotel
Bus to the Trading Post
Bridge
Float
Camp
Hike
Float
Cave Beach
Float
Hike to First Falls
Camp
Float
Petroglyphs
Float
Slant to Canyon
Challenge Coins
Elf Chasm
Float
Creek Waterfall Lizard
Float to Phantom Ranch
Phantom Ranch
Chupacabra
Tent View
Guitar Canyon
Float
Cactus Cliffs Camp
Digital Camera’s Last Battery Moments
Helicopter Medical Evacuation
Havasu Falls
Last Camp Feast
Brandy’s Photos
Josh’s Photos & Others
Bright Angel Trail
Skywalk
Back to Flagstaff
Airport Out
Best Hotels
Vegan Restaurants & Shops
Ancient Ruins

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Phase 1:

My first trips here were during the hellish Phase 1; I had to make long drives straight through, slept in ratty hotels, and was always in the company of the worst people I could have ever imagined meeting. One time, the entire northern half of the state snowed and froze over, narrowly missing blocking my entire critical route. Never once did I get to see its greatest feature; the Grand Canyon.

I did manage to check out the Petrified Forest, though (and have since figured out how to re-green such places).

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Phase 2:

Phase 2 kicked off with just that, however; I got invited for a free, fully-funded, 10-day, 226-mile, white-water rafting expedition from start to finish of that deep and massive canyon so sacred to the local tribes. It all started at a hotel with at least a dozen flawless shorty Native girls working there in various capacities; the receptionist, the bartender, and the red-shirted black-haired girl who walked by our bus right outside, just to name a few. I was then introduced to one of their Chiefs and Medicine Men, as well as to two of their sons. A variety of service-members and expert-guide civilians went with me, and I felt safe even in the most horrifyingly powerful dips and other rapids this country has to offer. I even saw a flawless smiling teen in aviators riding another J-rig passing us one day, and a flawless teen Blood Elf hottie (perfect teenified Sylvanas manifested at last!) standing in only her onesie swimsuit right along the reed-covered shore we passed during one of the later days of this floating trip; she looked right at me for the longest time, waving and giving me the feeling she was not with any of the other families or rafters that were around. I also heard, one night while somewhere between sleep and waking, the tiny voice of an unmistakable fairy. “Hi!” it happily, excitedly, effervescently exclaimed. And then there was the infinitely hotter version of Rain Ocampo standing there on a trail near the only post office when I walked by; sneakers, boy-shorts, sports bra, and sunglasses. My, how she caught my eye. I still wonder about the two elf-like male guards who stood with her, and why they all greeted me, seeming to want to speak more.

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2020 update: Late this year, as I was returning from Mexico, none other than IRL Ambi herself was at the first motel I stopped at, waiting for me, somehow knowing I’d be there even before I did, thus able to rendezvous/intercept. She showed me her height, looks, voice, and so much more were all perfect. Thank the gods females are FINALLY shaping up like this.

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2024 June 7 Friday:

drove to the motel where I saw Ambi in person for the 2nd time for sure; Yuma, but no luck this time –though I now know she is real, thinks of me as her husband, and that I have/can time travel, apparently. Maybe 2nd times anywhere are neutral, regardless of how many years after The Shift they occur. Maybe in rd3 of that motel/city… we’ll have one of our amazing honeymoons there. Amen.
learned what the unmarked/unnamed (in Google Maps) gray area is; the vast bombing range

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Phase 3:

In Phase 3, I will surely have time to meet all those perfect girls under much more relaxed and cooler terms; I was quite under the weather and on the verge of heat fatigue on that trip, and barely greeted any of them at all. Something just didn’t feel quite right about our initial-encounter circumstances back then. It will when I return… and I might even get to meet some of the Ant People and Snake People the Natives still quietly speak about in their innermost circles. It is probable all those encounters were them scouting me and my vibe, seeking to experience and heal (or ‘level up’) from it, just as I had gone there to scout and benefit from theirs.

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Initial/Overall:

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Maps:

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Airport:

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Hotel:

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Bus to the Trading Post:

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Bridge:

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Float:

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Camp:

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Hike:

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Float:

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Cave Beach:

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Float:

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Hike to First Falls:

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Camp:

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Float:

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Petroglyphs:

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Float:

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Slant to Canyon:

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Challenge Coins:

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Elf Chasm:

This was not far from where I got to see Sylvanas in person for the first time; no coincidence, its name!

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Float:

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Creek Waterfall Lizard:

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Float to Phantom Ranch:

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Phantom Ranch:

This was where Rain manifested/revealed herself to be real for the first time, picture-perfect in every way! I even saw her multiple times; she had set up her camp tent right in view of the post office / restaurant at this junction! I remain star-struck to this very day and moment, missing her extreme and flawless beauty. I know she’ll return and be wearing that same outfit she could tell I loved on her.

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Chupacabra: