{"id":1671,"date":"2015-03-28T17:40:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T00:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2015-04-12T23:56:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T06:56:35","slug":"the-grand-canyon-really-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/the-grand-canyon-really-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Five – The Grand Canyon Really Is!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, “Pass here and go on, you’re on the road to heaven.” Ah well, alackaday, I was more interested in some old covered wagons and pool tables sitting in the Nevada desert near a Coca-Cola stand and where there were huts with the weatherbeaten signs still flapping in the haunted shrouded desert wind, saying, “Rattlesnake Bill lived here” or “Broken-mouth Annie holed up here for years.”<\/em> \u2013Jack Kerouac, On the Road<\/p>\n

The route from Zion to the Grand Canyon is pretty sparse country\u2014some parts pretty and others pretty in their own stark way. We had time to listen to our audio book or talk or just be quiet. Rog is a good traveling companion (not too<\/em> much like Kerouac\u2019s Dean Moriarity). We got to the Grand Canyon after dark, so there we were\u2014but we couldn\u2019t see anything. No problem, we were tired and hungry so we wouldn\u2019t have stopped anyway.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_3231-34-37-40<\/a>When you\u2019ve seen one bunch of red rocks, you\u2019ve seen them all, right? Nope! We weren\u2019t necessarily planning to spend all that much time at the GC, but we spent half a day or more. It really is spectacular, and in a different way than Zion.<\/p>\n

[By the way, you should be able to click on these pictures to see larger versions.}<\/p>\n

\"IMG_3284a<\/a> We did not go to the part where the clear Skywalk juts out over the canyon. (That\u2019s not inside the National Park.) However, there were a number of places with rails up to the edge of the cliff where you could look down.\u00a0 For someone who flew balloons for 30 years, and was completely comfortable looking over the side of the basket, I found looking down into the canyon that way pretty unnerving.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve all seen photos and videos of the Grand Canyon, but seeing it in person is something else.\u00a0 My photos don\u2019t compare with some I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve seen, but enjoy them anyway.<\/p>\n

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