In 2003 I drove from Boston, in
the north-eastern corner of the US, to LA, in the south-west, to attend and
speak at the national animal rights conference there. It took five days and cost
under USD 150. I slept in the car (no air-conditioning), eating canned and
Chinese restaurant food. I did the same thing in reverse about a year previously
in temperatures up to 43 C being tortured by right wing radio stations across
the midwestern Bible Belt - it's not fun. Good thing I'm Australian and a
spiritual master of patience and pain :)
The Grand Canyon is one day out of LA, in the Arizonan desert. I camped under
desert trees and a carpet of stars in the South Rim caravan park, not far from
the edge, and was gone soon after dawn, before the ranger came for the fees
(unfortunately I was broke).
Observation Tower.
Precipice.
Grand Canyon 1.
Grand Canyon 2.
Modern architects attempted to built this gift shop and observation tower on the canyon edge in the style of the Mesa Indians and the natural surrounds.
There’s a trail out there somewhere, going down to the bottom. It takes about a day to walk and you can camp at the bottom. Unfortunately I had to be in Los Angeles the next day. Another time, perhaps …
The canyon is about a mile wide and just as deep and looks amazing from the air!
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Observation Tower.
Modern architects attempted to built this gift shop and observation tower on the canyon edge in the style of the Mesa Indians and the natural surrounds.
