Where is the grand canyon north rim
Grand Canyon National Park - why YOU SHOULD visit the NORTH RIM
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welcome back to the other side in this
video we're going to be exploring grand
canyon national park i cannot believe
i'm saying that because it's definitely
been on my bucket list
anna went there when she was younger but
she doesn't really remember so it's new
to us both on the drive
in yesterday we actually saw something
terrifying we saw the aftermath of a
massive wildfire about 30 minutes
outside the park
in the drone footage i'm showing you you
can see half of the forest is burnt to
the ground and other half is lush green
forest
for those of you that love the office i
just finished it last night in the hotel
room
very very sad if you do remember in the
office when will ferrell said the north
rim of the grand canyon is surrounded by
lush green forest he is not lying we are
surrounded by
massive green pines and some of these
trees are changing colors because it is
fall it's about
october 13th i think and the north room
actually closes the 15th so we only have
a couple days to explore
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we're exactly 90 days in our usa road
trip let's put this into perspective we
made this van without a toilet
or a shower because we thought it was
only going to be two months kind of safe
to say that we're getting a little sick
of van life we're missing showers we're
missing a
toilet right by the bed at night because
yes i always have to pee in the middle
of the night
the one good thing about it i know there
probably shouldn't be a good thing about
it but she sees the most amazing start
and she's always like ian come outside
come out look at the stars we saw here
they're the best stars we've seen the
entire trip and they're at the grand
canyon
because there's nothing around for those
of you wondering where we're camping at
the grand canyon national park we're
actually in the park right now at this
roundabout we got a porta potty we got
some garbage and recycling
and this is where we slept last night no
one bothered us there's no no camping
signs so it doesn't seem like you can't
camp here and we have these tables to
work on
this is our jackery it's a portable
power station and
it's our lifeline we just used it to
make coffee and now i'm curling my hair
in the woods again kind of getting old
we're gonna actually do everything that
we want to do here in one day's time so
if you only have one day to visit the
grand canyon this video will be perfect
for you
today we're starting out our day with a
scenic drive
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we're at point imperial it was 11 miles
into the scenic drive and we are in an
elevation of 8 800
feet and it's absolutely stunning ready
here comes our first big reveal
boom look at how massive this
is it's one of those places you need to
be here to really see how crazy it is
that right there is point imperial this
viewpoint
is the best view of the east canyon it
sure lives up to its reputation for
those of you that don't know a thing
about the grand canyon kind of like us
before we came is that the north rim is
the least visited part with only 10
of visitors every single year while the
south rim gets 90
of the 6 million visitors a year a big
difference and we could definitely tell
there's no one around we only see a
couple cars here and there
it's much more peaceful just how we like
it like anna said we're just reading
this helpful signs and the vermilion
cliffs are right there in the distance
you barely see him i'm going to zoom in
but right past the verbillion cliffs
are zion capital reef glen canyon and
arches national park we just finished up
zion
national park and it was like disneyland
and disney world combined it was so
packed but nonetheless it was beautiful
if you want to watch that video it's
right up here
imperial point is an awesome place to
have lunch because there's nobody in
sight they have a lot of benches here so
there's an
amazing view that you can eat by and
also there's picnic tables right over
there so if you have a big family they
have a big setup for you we make a ton
of quinoa at once i make the whole bag
so that i don't have to cook anymore
like i used to cook every day on the
road and i'm sick of it so now we just
eat quinoa plain with hummus
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now we are at the visitor center and
there's a trail right here that's only
half a mile called bright angel point
it's probably the best viewpoint the
reason i know that is because we did it
last night but we didn't show you guys
so today we'll show you we wanted to
come back during the day because
this sun at night time creates shadows
so you can't see one of the sides so
we're hoping during the day
some being directly above you can see a
really cool view of both sides
something really important here at the
grand canyon is the air quality when
there's pollution you can't really
see it as well they work really hard uh
with surrounding states to make sure
that air quality stays good for those
who want to see the grand canyon
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we're at a very awesome viewpoint i
think it's the best one we found on the
entire trail
it looks really sketchy from the side i
think ian got a shot from me from the
side
but when you're on it straight on it's a
really big platform so it's not as scary
and that's the end of the trail right
there where you see a lot of people on
that tall rock over there but we chose
over here because there's less people
covered and covered yeah and this like
are you kidding me
if you want to do one trail here at the
north rim of the grand canyon
definitely do bright angels point it's
super fast and it has some of the most
amazing views of both sides of the
canyon but we suggest coming at noon
because the sun's up the lights hitting
both sides and you can see them
perfectly clear
next up we have kbob trail let's do it
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last trail of the day we're doing is
called north kebab trail it's the only
maintained trail down into the canyon i
think we're only about to do 1.5 mile
round trip so
not too bad but still the altitude's
gonna make us tired
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there's so much poop it's mule poop
i think the big thing anna and i are
thankful for right now is that we came
in one of our favorite times which is
fall and the colors going
the fall colors are making our trip that
much more special because
honestly we didn't even know if we're
gonna get to see the leaves change this
year and
having different colors with the green
and the canyon it's really magical
hey if you have vacation time in october
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we have made it down probably 0.8 miles
to the coconino viewpoint and
wow where semi in the canyon you could
really see
the walls yeah people do that trail all
the way down there
zoom in a little bit but trail goes
right through that canyon
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we just saw some mules and we learned
something today in order to breed a mule
you need a female horse
and a male donkey it can't be the other
way around or it's not called a mule
it's called something else a honey it's
called a honey the other way around
we're gonna end our hike at coconino
overlook you can continue on
there's other things to see along this
trail but we know it's a very vigorous
hike up so we're gonna head out now
because it's getting dark and we're
hungry
we were just driving i was like oh my
god oh my god bison i had no idea the
grand canyon bison look at that
there is nothing more pretty than bison
with this fall color it's unbelievable
that is the coolest thing look at those
guys
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what a great way to end our day here at
grand canyon national park
i can't believe we saw buffalo i didn't
think that was even a possibility but
what a great surprise
right now we're having something called
a smorgasbord smorgasbord
is a little bit of everything we have
quinoa kale onion tomato
egg hummus and then some oil and vinegar
we just put it all in a bowl
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we hope you enjoyed watching us at the
grand canyon before we go though we want
to show you something that we have never
showed you before and that's
how we set up our bed for night time
last night it was
a reason cold below 30 and ian and i
have to snuggle that's how we keep warm
we do have a thermal sleeping bag we
never pull it out it seems to do the
trick cuddling so if you're alone
sorry if you have another person make
sure to snuggle up first thing we do
before bedtime is wipe down with baby
wipes if we can't find a shower which we
usually don't is all we have to do so we
wipe down
kind of do everywhere you can and this
kind of makes you feel semi-clean
so we already moved everything before we
had dinner but basically what we do is
there's some stuff
on our bed during the day for example
these hats are hanging by my side and
i don't want them when i'm sleeping so
we just put everything up here
and then like my backpack when we're too
lazy to go put it up we put everything
up here so the bed's nice
and ready for us we've shown you these
in other videos we
cut out insulation to put up as our
shade
and usually they're always up in our car
but you don't see the ones
in the front so we make sure to put this
up and one out in the front so we have
some privacy at night these things are
velcro so it's easy to take them
up and down every single day once we
have the bed situated we'll get in
i'll usually like not be ready for bed
yet i'll have to wipe down
i take my shoes off we always keep one
side
open either the passenger side or the
driver's side whichever one we're
feeling
the reason we keep one side open is of
course to go to the bathroom during the
night or to even change or clean off
now we're in the bath we keep our lights
on we watch
tv on our ipad we were watching the
office but we finished so now we're on
to friends i think ian already told you
that i have a candle i am obsessed with
candles
so that was one of my birthday presents
for me and so we like that at night
and then we always have a yogurt for
dessert i don't know why we started this
he and i have big sweet tooths and we
were eating candy a lot so we decided to
switch to yogurt every night and then
ian always says peanut butter and that's
it
that's all we do it's a simple life cup
hopefully that helps some of you guys
out there wondering about our routines
on the road
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next time on the other side in this
video we are going to be doing all
things around the page arizona area
heading towards the most famous spot
here in lake powell which is
antelope canyon this should be on
everyone's bucket list this is amazing
we're going mountain biking around lake
powell these are special bikes because
they're electric
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