Grand Canyon

The Grand Canyon Rail. I got scalped tickets from the owner of the Grand Motel where I was staying: he got them for free and sold one to me for less than half price. Pretty sweet. On the way to the Canyon, the train de-railed, in it's first accident since 1961. Don't worry kids, they sent buses for us and the only reprocussion was that we were 40 minutes late. They let us stay at the canyon later, and got the train back on track by the time we were ready to come back into town. There was a staged robbery, but because of the snow and the later hour, the robbers didn't ride up and overtake the train on horseback like usual.

Views from the train: from desert to pine forests.











Me at the canyon. The views are overwhelming, the sheer distance you can see tricks your eyes into flattening out the landscape. Like looking at a miniature. I hiked the trail 3 miles roundtrip and ate at a restaurant.