So, we spent 2 weeks driving around in the deser
t. And it smelled like sage and dust, which was totally awesome.
t. And it smelled like sage and dust, which was totally awesome.My first look at the Grand Canyon went something like this "wow I wish my Dad could see this, but he's blind and he will die having never seen it". And then I cried for a while. Now, some people cry at the awesomeness of the canyon, but me, I cried about the people I love who won't see it, or who never got to see it, like my mother in law. Then I named formations after them, like Cookie's Rock and Don's Wall.
After my maudlin display on the rim, which MaryGail missed because she was taking a million pictures of the actual canyon itself, we went for a lovely hike about a mile down the canyon on the Angel Fire trail or something like that. It was, for lac
k of a better word, awesome.Okay, here are some better words to describe the desert in Arizona, Utah, and Nevada, and the Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, and Zion National Park: amazing, astonishing, breathtaking, grand, impressive, magnificent, majestic, mind-blowing, moving, overwhelming, something else (really thesaurus.com, something else?), striking, stunning, stupefying, wonderful, wondrous. The places we visited were all of those things. And we have about 3,000 pictures to prove it.
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ReplyDeleteThere is something about the the Grand Canyon that must invoke the tears. I stood at the edge and sobbed uncontrollably.
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