After nearly two weeks in the van we are approaching the end of an amazing loop through spectacular national and state parks. The Grand Canyon will be our last park in this part of the country.
We make the drive after antelope canyon, and drive via a Route 66 place called Snow Cap (quirky indeed!) we arrive at the Grand Canyon.
Maybe it’s all the driving, maybe I’m just getting ready for a real bed, but there are some things that bugged me about the Grand Canyon this evening. Mostly it’s the infrastructure (lack of it, including cell coverage), the weird spacing between campground and toilets/showers, the absence of any clear signs to places, that in many places the car routes are twice as short as the walking paths (why?!). Anyway, I’m a bit grumpy by the time we get to the rim trail after checking into the campground and aimlessly wandering about trying to get ANYWHERE.
The rim is cool. But it doesn’t wow me the way that nearly everywhere else has. It’s cool, it’s big, but it’s not as beautiful as I was expecting.
We watch the sunset with a beer and maybe I begin to see something in this place…
The geology museum is pretty good. Beyond the entire back story of each layer of rocks it’s just kind of cool to think that the Colorado River has flowed in the same direction for five million years and in that time, it has cut down through about three hundred million years of rock. That’s incredible.
