The Grand Canyon

We're finally en route to the grand canyon, and have stopped along the way to get a potentially interesting photo for the collection - it's time consuming.  However, the use of the tripod allows Emily and I to get another much needed photo of us together - we don't seem to have many. It also allows us to actually get a decent shot of us. We asked a lady at the zoo to take a photo of us only to discover only one of us in it (was quite amusing and all very polite)! We then decided that only people with a reasonable look of what they were doing with a camera were best asked.

Oh yeh, just remembered about how many deer there are near the roads around Glendale (near Bryce Canyon) and here. I had to brake quite sharply at one point last night and come to a complete stop for one standing in the middle of the road! It almost woke Emily up...

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We've visited quite a few hot spots for a good view of the canyon now and it's been amazing to see the sights. As we had limited time we picked out the ones we thought we'd get the most out of and spent a little more time at each one - rather than spending five minutes at each and then moving on.  The last one we wanted to visit meant doing it the British way i.e. parking further away and walking to it. It can be accessed by a shuttle bus for those inclined.  We got there, did a little recce for a good spot, and then watched a beautiful sunset. It was absolutely spectacular. Well worth waiting for.  It would have been nice to do some actual hiking down into the canyon but we're on such a whistle stop tour there isn't time.  It's an excuse to come back here too.

We left the canyon and headed to our motel in Williams where we met the owner who is from Belgium - just came over here last year.  Somehow we got onto the subject of guns and then him and the guy in the room next door to us did a bit of show and tell with all their guns! Between them there were two 12 gauge shotguns and five pistols of varying caliber - Arizona is one of the states where you can carry concealed weapons if you have a permit.

Anyways then we rushed off to dinner and going to bed now.