So, I am in Mather
Campground inside the Grand Canyon National Park. It is Thursday when I am writing this, so
forgive me but I am not sure when this will go up. Wow, I have done a lot in the two days since
I started this trip. Went to Vegas and
went to Bachi Burger. It was an
interesting place. It was a little heavy
on the asian flavors, but all in all the place will get my thumbs up. Stayed at the Hilton on the Strip and boy was
it nice. I would have liked to stay much
longer for they gave me a suite. Good
gods, it was wonderful.
On the 18th I went
to the Skywalk at the Grand Canyon West.
I was expecting to pay something, but it was $75! I paid for it anyway and got my first good
look at the Canyon. Breathtaking. The Skywalk is owned and run by Hualapai
natives. Now I didn’t take pictures on
the Skywalk. You werent allowed to take
any cameras due to some problems. That
kinda sucked. But I walked the inside of
the ring (gripping the handrail), walked the outside ring (again gripping the
rail) and tried to walk down the middle of the glass. Got a third of the way before I went to the
inside. I could feel it sway. It was worse than the Skytree or Tokyo Tower,
because it was open to the outside.
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| Skywalk is in the upper left corner. |
I got to Grand
Canyon East later that evening. Tusayan
is a nice little town, except for the internet is totally unreliable. It says I have four bars and full connection
but I didn’t. I stayed the night in the
hotel (too expensive) because it was too late.
I asked the front desk person where to get something to eat and she
suggested a steakhouse or mexican. I
chose the steakhouse. I have been
seriously steak deprived for seven months.
I hope she gets a kickback or something because I wont be eating there
again. I had the combo steak and
ribs. I don’t think they put salt on the
steak, the ribs were too dry and the baked beans were watery tasting from a
can. Sad, sad steak experience.
The next day was
today, Thursday. I got into the
campground and got it for two days.
Today I went to east exit of the park and I stopped at nearly all the
overlooks. Today was better for the sun
was out and shining. Yesterday as I left
the Skywalk it rained… hard. Today it
was nice and bright and you can see all of the pictures I have taken on the east side of the camp to the Desert View about 25 miles away.
Today, the 20th of March, I am going to go to the west side of the camp. I would like to come back here and hike the over 200 miles of trails. So I am going to put this up right now, and to the rest of today, tomorrow.
