Arizona - The Grand Canyon State.

The trip begun with two Vente Soy Chi’s, two toasted bagels and two exhausted Boston Terrier’s… or at least I presume the dogs were exhausted as they slept almost the entire time we were on the road. Apparently all warnings that Dogs don’t travel very well don’t apply to Boston’s.
After leaving Las Vegas we said cheers to the Silver State of Nevada by crossing over the Hoover Dam. A colossal wall of concrete that stops the mighty Colorado River dead in its tracks, all be it temporarily before releasing said river post redeployment through electrical turbines back on its jaunt to Mexico. Currently a huge construction protect is under way to build a bridge that will span the chasm that separates a mountainess ridge on the Nevada boundary from the mountainess ridge on the Arizona border. The elevation from the center of this overpass is probably going to be as towering if not higher than the Stratosphere Hotel. (Does that even make sense ?)
The full distance from home plate to the South Rim and the little town of Tusayan only took around five hours. We left just before noon, and by 5:30PM we were in the room, warm and happy to be at our destination. Along the way we were surprised by a lot of the geography, for some reason I thought the natural features were going to be characteristic of Western films. Wide open spaces punctuated by intermittent heaps of boulders, hills and or mountains. Instead we were pleasantly surprised by some very wooded stretches of Pine Trees, some tall, but oddly enough, by far the majority of trees seemed to be a rather stumpy. I assume they are indigenous to this area and or elevation because the closer we go to the little town of Williams the higher we climbed and the less and less the surroundings looked like Arizona desert. It was quite amazing to watch the temperature gauge drop as we climbed. At one point we went from 42 degrees F to 36 F in less than five miles. Currently the temperature is around the 28 F mark For those who work in centigrade, that’s 4 points bellow freezing. There is supposed to be snow in the next few days, but I’m guessing things are going to need to warm up a tad before that even possible !
As for our immediate future, tomorrow hails a day of discovery. Exploration of the Grand Canyon starts at the crack of dawn… Free breakfast ends at 9:30AM, which is pretty disappointing since there is no way in hell we’ll be up for that !