Grand Canyon Thursday 16th March 2012

Above. the Grand Canyon in all it's glory. Despite the very hot day, there is still snow lying in sheltered areas right alongside various cacti.

Photographs will never be able to capture the magnitude and beauty of this place.

Carzy hikers posing.

The 3 Amigos also posing...

Thursday 16th March: It's difficult to put into words how amazing this place is. Prior to arriving at Grand Canyon, I had no real expectations or understanding of what was to be seen. Jaw dropping, awesome, stunning, choose your own description, mutiply that by 1000 and you may get close. After taking about 100 photographs and 30 minutes of video, I gave up and simply enjoyed the place in all its beauty. Ken, James and I spent about 3 hours there. Often as The 3 Amigo's often on our own. People watching was out of this world, all shapes and sizes, all nationalities and all with one common binding factor, which was total appreciation of this spectacular place. Indeed, one of the 7 wonders of the world. As the sun started to set, the colours on the rocks changed by the second, light places became dark, dark places became invisible and never yet seen places seemed to appear out of the shadows. It's been a great day and as we head back to our RV park in Sedona, Jane, (our trusty SAT NAV guide) decides that she has had enough and has gone on strike. So we are satnavless, good job we can remember the road back. We deliver the car back to the Hertz rental office at just after 10pm and phoned a local taxi company to get us back to the RV park. The taxi driver arrived within 10 minutes and he turned out to be the booking clerk from the airport company we used yesterday. "Yes sir, he said, we all have to take on more than one job in this town. Do you only have the one job in Scotland" he asked with a glint in his eye. If you've ever seen the film 'Local Hero' it was just like the scene where Mr Urquhart changed from Waiter, to Lawer in a 10 minute interval. Yes... It really has been a great day.