Chiling at the Grand Canyon

August 4
Another nice non-travel day. Woke up at a reasonable time and had a great camp granola breakfast and great French press beverage.

And then we got another stamp you know your jealous, you want our passport. “You should hear the song that goes along with this in my head”. I am sashaying and everything.

Obviously one of the Seven Wonders of the World for a reason and obviously the crown jewel of the national park system as their visitor center just dwarfs everything we have been to so far. We caught our first glimpse of the Grand Canyon at around 8:50 AM and it was already really crowded. I must say the most random hilarious aspect was the random man drinking a Budweiser in a cozy as he looked at the Grand Canyon. Can you say, “I have a problem.”? Maybe he was just hung over. The Grand Canyon is really spectacular and like nothing I’ve ever seen but is really hazy and foggy and tough to truly capture the depths of it on camera.

Well it started to get hot and as you can tell from our previous itineraries we really haven’t had a lot of time to chill. Did some grocery shopping at the Grand Canyon General Store and then it was time for some laundry. I must say we were both thankful for some clean underwear.

We then had a delightful camp nap. Which are always spectacular.

A nice lunch followed that and then we headed into town. We wanted some internet access so we can make sure all of our bills actually got paid and found an awful internet café. We luckily followed that up with a great find of a place that just opened. I got a great Grand Canyon shirt there with this quote “ Bring a compass, It’s awkward when you have to eat your friends.” And we were able to get online there.

Then we tried this really novel idea of cooking dinner, eating and cleaning up during daylight and allowing ourselves some time to relax and actually do something after dinner.

We tried to catch sunrise from some viewpoints along desert view drive and first stopped at Grandview point, which was incredibly crowded. Along the way we saw three male deer with big horns. We must say the Arizona deer are a little weird, as you don’t usually see three male deer chilling unless they are at the local deer saloon. Speaking of I can’t remember which National park we were in when I heard this quote from a video warning to leave nature alone “ A hungry deer will gore you to death if he sees you as a source of food.” We then tried to hustle to a less crowded view call Moran View but just missed the true sunset but still got some very cool pictures.
We then had great campfire and enjoyed some wine capping a spectacular vacation day of recharging our batteries and enjoying an amazing Grand Canyon