road trip 2009: day 5
ok, time to polish these bad boys off. we were planning on eating at a casino buffet for breakfast but adam’s friend made us pancakes before we even woke up. someday.. after the quick breakfast, we set off towards the grand canyon. this drive actually took quite a bit longer than i originally planned for some reason. the scenery along the way was quite ugly and it was a pretty long and lame drive.
the one cool thing was the hoover dam along the way. well, cool except for the part when the department of the interior made us pay $7 to park and then wanted us to pay $8 more a person just for the tour. we opted to just look around the outside.
i guess they are building a bridge across the gorge. this was actually pretty cool. the drive to kingman was depressingly bland, and then on through to the grand canyon was about the same.
just arrived at the grand canyon.
i wanted to arrive closer to about 1 pm because 3:30 pm left us with only a few hours before we needed to be back on the road. but what short amount of hiking we got to do was quite amazing.
it’s really pretty here.
here are a few pics. sadly the iphone camera once again fails to do the view justice.
we took a bus ride down about 2 miles west along the rim and hiked back to the parking lot. i loved the view and i am adding this to one more place i need to spend a week at.
leaving grand canyon. five hour drive now to Blythe CA. sounds like a terribly exciting place.
so we made the decision to make it as far as possible that night so we would have less driving to do on saturday. we picked blythe and set off for the long journey back west.
leaving kingman. a couple more hours left to go till Blythe and sleep.
adam got us to kingman, and i took over from there. driving through the deserts of southern california while dead tired is not usually the best idea. since its almost two months ago, i think its safe to say i almost killed us both on this drive because of my fatigue. quite a few wild animals running across the highway too.
just pulled into the Blythe CA motel 6. gosh I’m tired out.