A Canyon that was Grand

Not a great breakfast at the hotel, mainly because the breakfast meat looked liked boiled meat patties.  Now, leftover patties from last night’s BBQ is a true delicacy but pretty limp looking mystery meat is where I draw the line.  Also I grabbed the wrong milk substitute and ended up with some some of French Vanilla weirdness in my coffee.

Below I’ll just put some of the 300+ photos I took.  The Grand Canyon is what everyone says it is.  Breathtaking in the size and scale.  It’s just huge and deep and wide and something different and alive wherever you look.  There were squirrels, roadrunners (one of which I almost ran over in the car, and they are fast), deer and all manner of other things rustling around in the bushes.

It’s hard to get across the scale of everything in the photos, but a lot of the wider stuff 

This is a very wide angle photo so at the bottom is looking almost straight down and at the top is almost straight across.  There aren’t too many barriers around the edges, I guess the vast vertical drops are a barrier enough.

If you look very closely and use your imagination, along the skyline just to the left of half way there is a tiny little bump.  That’s the Desert Watch Tower in the photos a little lower down.

To kind of show the scale – the rocks at the top right have people standing on it

And these are those people – it’s just so huge!

An actual vulture!

The whole canyon system just went on and on to the horizon.

Buffalo Wild Wings and an American Sports Bar all in one.

We have boneless wings with parmesan garlic sauce coating on the left and a “Buffalo Boneless Bar Pizza”.  The barman said he had worked there 20 years and it was one of the best things they’ve ever come out with.  Those must have been some pretty grim years because while this was fine it wasn’t anything special.  The buffalo sauce was too hot for me as well, and the jalapeños were definitely picked off.