1. Painted desert was amazing. One of my books described it as a "psychedelic box of crayons dumped upside down." And then some one flung a bunch of petrified wood throughout the desert. And they're was some pretty sweet petroglyphs (rock carvings.) You drive through 28 miles of it, and I'm glad we chose not to camp there. It was hot and there was a whole bunch of sand blowing around and no shade, which is fine in the car but crappy when you have to hike a mile to your campsite. We had a great time.
2. We then drove through Arizona to the Grand Canyon. Arizona has a lot of cops and expensive gas. It is my least favorite state so far. We did see some more Route 66 crap.
I've never seen a gas pump this old school
Wigwam motel
3. We arrived at the Grand Canyon at about 6pm. The campground was very crowded, but in a "wow, this is some stellar people watching" way rather than a "get all these tourists away from me" way. We realized then that our tent is pretty balluh. It's a 5-6 person tent, but I couldn't imagine having 6ppl in there. Then we saw a 2 person tent. It looked significantly smaller than a twin bed mattress on the ground, so I'm really not sure how that works.
4. We woke up early the next morning, got Boyf a new memory card for his camera (who has 64mb memory cards anyway?) then, we had a gross, overpriced, cafeteria style breakfast (coffee, breakfast sandwich on an English muffin, dry raisin bagel= $10.25. No joke.
5. Then we took a 3 mile (round trip) hike down the canyon. It's something like 10+ miles to get to the bottom, so although it felt victorious, we saw 6 year olds and 60 year olds climb more. It is intensified by the fact that we carried lots of water and it was super hot, but we had a good time, took some beautiful photos.
Then, we made PBnJ and headed toward Vegas.
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