Day 4: Arizona-
After spending the night in Flagstaff, we drove into Grand Canyon National Park.
The Grand Canyon is like nothing I have ever seen before. We drove into a fairly ordinary looking park, parked our car, walked about a hundred yards, and were suddenly staring at hole in the ground bigger than you could possible conceive of. It's beautiful, and terrifying, and absolutely looks fake. My engineer is terrified of heights (don't tell him I told you), but was perfectly fine climbing around on rocks at the edge of the canyon, because the heights you are looking at are so enormous your brain can't begin to comprehend them. Once again, I will try to compensate for my lack of words with a few pictures.
We had made plans to meet a friend in L.A. that evening, so we tore ourselves away far too soon, and headed back to the parking lot, where we saw a baby mule deer.
Word to the wise: if you ever make it to the Grand Canyon, give yourself a full day. At least.
The drive to L.A. was mostly uneventful, save another about-to-run-out-of-gas-in-the-middle-of-nowhere experience, and we got to see a couple of interesting bands at some club. Honestly, we were too tired to really appreciate the evening.
The next day, we limped our way to our final destination, where we immediately took a very long nap in my new, entirely unfurnished apartment. And thus concludes our grand adventure.
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