Back to the Canyon

MORE: We're still working through all of the photos from our Grand Canyon visit a couple of weeks ago.

There were so many remarkable vistas and features. We could spend weeks and weeks there checking it all out.

For instance, look at the structure in the photo below. 

 It would be so cool to stand in those voids in the rock - but so scary getting there and back! :)

There were a number of signs along the canyon - but not as many as you might expect.  In the photo below, we were in about the middle of the South Rim.

The Grand Canyon was actually more green than we were thinking it would be. There were lots of trees and shrubs and even flowers.

This bark-less beauty caught my attention.

 Here's what CJ had to say about our visit to the Grand Canyon. ...

In September 2018, during our trip to Nevada and Arizona, we visited the South and West Rims of the Grand Canyon, during the portion of our trip in Arizona. We went to the Grand Canyon on two separate days (in a row), and stayed for multiple hours each day. One was in the afternoon, and the other was in the morning. Here are some of my recollections involving the Canyon:

When I first saw the Grand Canyon in person, it was mind-blowing. I had never seen a canyon that deep up to that point. For several minutes, we walked to my left, stopping at various points to admire and smell the view. Using an empty water bottle we had bought from a rural gas station several hours ago, my father and I filled it up with tap water from a foul-smelling men's room. The water tasted "stale," for lack of a better word. We also skimmed through exhibits at "lodges" on the rims, such as the Hopi House, featuring hard rocks taken from the canyon. The lodges provided shelter from the at-times brutal heat outside.

On the second day, we took multiple buses across multiple different gazing points, near the Western part of the South Rim. In particular, my mother wanted to visit "The Abyss." However, it turned out that "The Abyss" was not nearly as deep as its name implied. One of our drivers, Rob. E, asked bus passengers to get off the bus at stops and gaze into the canyon, as for many tourists, this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.