Serendipity: the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for.
Yesterday's sightseeing trip was to Zion National Park. It seemed more crowded than Yellowstone, but of course their parking lot is smaller as is the area of the park so that changes your perception. The shuttle buses were nice and certainly saved a lot of traffic through the park as well as fuel and you didn't have to wait long for the next one if you got off and explored the various stops along the route. We passed on the tunnel route as we weren't interested in paying the $15 tariff for driving a duallie.
The serendipity? We bypassed the Weeping Wall stop on the way up canyon as we had been walking the Lower Emerald Pool route and wanted to cool off a bit before walking again in the 90+ degree heat. So we caught the stop on the down canyon route, walked the short but steep walkway to the weeping wall where there was a group of Japanese (or perhaps Chinese) tourists standing under the overhang watching the water fall over the edge of the rock. As I was taking a picture of one of the couples for them, the lovely delicate sound of a pipe began, playing of all things, "Amazing Grace". It was the tour guide of the group who was playing a wooden pipe such as Pan would. It was a wonderful moment. Then a few moment later as we trekked back down the path I was tickled to hear him playing Simon and Garfunkle's "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)".
So if we had gotten off the shuttle on the way up canyon we would have missed this lovely impromptu concert. Serendipity.
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