A-58 - Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA

Username: A-58
Postmark: 5 October 2020
From: Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA

A-58's road trip kicks off with a check-in from the mighty Grand Canyon. This is surprisingly not only the first postcard from the Grand Canyon, and but also the first from the State of Arizona.

I've never visited the Grand Canyon myself, but it's always a place that captured my thoughts. It's a place the Otto family really want to visit.





Even little Serena picked out this card from the stack of mail, asking me to take her to see the "deep desert" in the photo.


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He is not lying, no pictures I have seen have ever done the canyon justice. It is outstanding.

You need to let Serena visit the GC.

 

We saw the Grand Canyon back in 2001 and Slipdigit is absolutely right ! It is one awe inspiring sight. Definitely should be on everyone's To See List.

 

There are always a few who don't understand those signs that say "STAY ON TRAIL" mean Stay on trail. Just a few steps off the path you can be standing so close to the edge that looking over you cannot see the bottom. There could be a ledge five feet down or, most likely, 500 feet down. 2 to 3 people die every year falling over the edge solely because they can't be bothered by such mundane things like warning signs and barriers placed along the walkways.
I saw the same behavior in another park where Darwin Award Winners wanted a close-up picture of a Bison and, well you know what happened. But Hey,they got a nice helicopter ride.

 

Geology 101 at Purdue: "The Colorado River is only partially responsible for the canyon. The fact that one side is several hundred feet higher than the other is our first clue."

 

The difference in elevation is the geologist's favorite refutation of the "great flood carved the Grand Canyon." Believers never explain why the water that covered the world would drain through one river bed, of course.

"Well, it's a mystery."

 

However, these were geologists, not archeologists. They weren't interested in arrow heads.

 

I think she has a great idea. I-40 takes you through Albuquerque (you could visit ULIHI!), the Painted Desert - beautiful scenery, the Petrified Forest National Park - the colors are amazing, the Barrington Crater = Meteor Crater National Landmark - impressive in it's own way. And the scenery all along the way is totally distracting for any flat-lander such as myself.
Oh and somewhere along the way ( I think just inside the Arizona border ) there is a nice Native American Museum with a Navajo blanket shop next door. Luckily for me they also had a fry bread stand which was about the only thing I could afford.

 

I went through I-40 in 1989, nose to tip of tail. The family all got "Indian" stuff. I still have a dreamcatcher.

 

Need a more explicit sign:

Krokodil macht frei.

 

And Sharks ! You guys have Sharks.