Day 3 - Grand Canyon (GC National Park, AZ)

How can I describe the Grand Canyon...

Shit was bananas.

It never lets me down. You sit in a hot car and pay another 25 dollars for parking at a national park. You know you've seen rock formations on the drive there, you've just driven through terrain with mountains in every direction. But it will never fail to blow your mind, every time you visit.

Can you find the Colorado River?

It's as if you were looking at a desert landscape, but someone scooped out massive chunks of ground and sculpted it. A drained ocean trench. And every now and then you can get a small peak of the Colorado river at the bottom from different angles, and you just want to applaud it.

Pretty dangerous viewpoint.

At times we felt like the only tourists that weren't international. Everywhere there were families shouting in foreign language. It was as if we were in the perfect advertisement for America - walking through the melting pot in the most gorgeous scene America has to offer.

Asian kid shouting "hello!" into the canyon.

Tourist sitting.

We picked a comfortable spot and stayed for nearly an hour, just soaking it all in.

18 pictures sewn together in Photoshop, feat. Jodie and the Grand Canyon.

Jodie and the scene.

Lewis ponders.

Layers and layers and layers and

Pictures could never do it justice.

yes.

Just a small part of it.

We walked maybe a mile(?) away from the car, simultaneously canyon- and people-watching. Sometimes air tours would interrupt the view and a helicopter would crawl across the landscape like a bug.

Jodie and Gavin.

Enjoying sun.

Southern darlin'.

Even the trees were nothing like what we have in NC.

Pretty uninviting.

We stopped inside a viewing area positioned over the canyon. It was wedge-shaped with one long window facing the canyon. Walking through the room was surreal - the scene in the window looked as if it were just a lit picture but moved as you did. It was enough to make you dizzy.

Viewing area.

Tourist at the window.

There was a gift shop inside and a few museum-like diagrams.

Gurando Kyanion

Gavin decided to buy one of these in German. The pictures inside go beyond anything posted here - they honestly make you want to spend a week scavenging the area. I mean sandy caves on the shore of the Colorado, alien-like birds that hang out below and every color of rock imaginable.

Rock layers.

SURPRISE CANYON.

We saw a few little guys like these on the way back to the car -

hello welcome to my canyon~

I even took home some organic souvenirs.

Colors of the Grand Canyon.

Diem Carpe'd.

-Marie