Holiday check in

[hamletta]

The third attempt at seeing the Grand Canyon was successful and boy is it a beautiful place. The colours and the vastness are just breathtaking. So here I am enjoying the sunshine and the incredible vista:



Afterwards we went to see the Barringer crater, which was effing impressive.



It was really cold though, with night temperatures dropping way below zero--so the result is that I'm now feverish and sniffy and with a with a creeping cold... :/

I'll try to take it easy for the next few days. We're in Tucson now and I'm planning to attend the Festival of Books on Saturday and Sunday. I really hope I won't spend the rest of this holiday sick... :(

Comments

[yhlee]

Thank you for sharing the pics! So beautiful.

I hope you recover soon from the creeping cold! Take care of yourself.

[tbutler]

Oooh, both are lovely, and I want to visit them sometime. :)

I do visit Las Vegas every year, and try to make it down to Hoover Dam at least once each visit; but since it's to visit a friend who can't travel any more, long excursions away down the Colorado River are out.

And yes, seconded, hope you feel better soon. :( One of the more miserable family trips I remember when I was growing up, I fell sick partway through Wyoming with a really nasty bug I'm not even sure what it was; I was stuck groggy in the camper while the rest of the family got to explore Jackson Hole. My emphatic sympathies.

(If you do ever make it up there, make sure to see the mountain where the top fell off! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Ventre_landslide )