The GRAND Canyon
Grand Canyon to Sedona to LA in one day! (20 hours in one day)
grand |grand|
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1 magnificent and imposing in appearance, size, or style : a grand country house | the dinner party was very grand.
• designed to impress through scale or splendor : a grand gestureMonday August 4th 2008
We’re certainly getting our money’s worth with our convertible hire car. In the two days that we’ve been in America, we have
driven 2100 kilometres. It’s all that driving with the puppet show last year, we’re out of control. This morning started at
Williams with a 5am start to the Grand Canyon. And Grand it is. It’s simply breathtaking - grand in every sense of the word
and so amazing I’m not even going to try and describe it - it would be pointless. Because we went so early, we saw the sunrise
on the way and then, most beautifully, we had our own contemplative and silent moments with the GC. She has a lot to say!
Be still, there’s no need to hurry. You are capable of everything. You are unique. I am grand. You are grand. We are all grand.
There is power in stillness, in beauty and in humility. Be still.
It was an incredibly inspiring and moving experience to really
be one of a handful of people who’d ventured out in the early morning. We walked along the South Rim, I found I couldn’t
take my eyes of her. The GC. Then we went to El Tovar Hotel, for a canyon side breakfast. El Tovar was built by Hopi
craftsmen and perched right on the South Rim. We were blessed with being offered the best table in the house! A few
pancakes, fresh fruit and maple syrup later we said goodbye to her and headed for LA via Sedona. Sedona is so gorgeous that
Rob grabbed a real estate book and started to look at adobe houses that we could move into. Not highly unusual though, we
both have an obsession with real estate, after all that’s how we met! We’ve looked at living in Tasmania (too cold), Arizona (too
hot) and California (just right!).
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