I woke up this morning with no earthly idea what today held for me ! Tim and I got up bright and early this morning and headed across the parking lot to the National Geographic Visitor's Center. We were just in time for the next viewing of the Grand Canyon IMAX Movie and we were looking forward to learning all about it. Tim bought our tickets while I got in line for some popcorn and drinks (breakfast). The movie was playing in one of those really huge IMAX Theatres so it felt almost like you were in the canyon yourself. It [View Full Entry]

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Ahhhhhhhh !! The air conditioning started working sometime during the day yesterday so Tim was able to get a cool good nights sleep. He was going to need it because we were planning on making the trip all the way to the Grand Canyon today without stopping. We packed up everything and headed towards the elevators only to find that three of the six were not working this morning. I thought to myself, what else is going to happen ?? We had to stand there while the elevator stopped nine times before we could squeeze into one. Oh well, I guess [View Full Entry]

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If I’m being honest, blogging is nearly impossible on a trip like this. With the rock-star schedule of being in a different city every night (sometimes three a day like yesterday), we have such a difficult time getting ourselves together for long enough to properly regurgitate everything we’re seeing out here. Latest Travel: Flagstaff to Sedona, Sedona to Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon To Phoenix Distance: 320 miles total Destination Phoenix, Arizona Right now we’re at Corey’s buddy Grant’s house, where the weather is a stifling 115 degrees during the peak hours of the day. It’s so hot you can literally feel [View Full Entry]

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From Wendy- Hello All, I have arrived safe and sound back to my home at Grand Canyon, and am almost finished unpacking. I want to take a moment to say thank you to all who were involved in planning and making this trip possible. What an amazing experience we had! I especially want to say THANK YOU to all my hosts. The kindness and open welcome I recieved while staying with each of you was amazing, and truly made such a difference in how enjoyable my experience was. How amazing to be able to stay with people who live and work [View Full Entry]

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I think that I can safely say that we arrived home with mixed emotions. Although we are glad to be home and see our families, we will truly miss our time together as a GSE team and the awesome time that we spent with our Rotarian hosts in Cayman, Nassau, Abaco and Provo. As of June 1st, Mark, Mishay, Wendy, Katie and I became a family and for better or worse would have to see each other and deal with each other everyday. To our delight, there was no dealing with each other and although we sometimes grew physically tired, we [View Full Entry]

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Katie checking in for one last blog! Hello All, I hope there are still folks checking out the blog. We all made it back to Arizona last night. It was a long day of traveling (why does it always seem to take longer getting home than getting there?) with us arriving in phoenix around 7pm, our time, last night. We had a great welcoming party! thanks to Marks family for greeting us and welcoming us back with style. ----now to fill you in on our last few days in Turks and Caicos- On saturday we went out with our Hosts for [View Full Entry]

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Hi Everyone, I am finally in Caribbean! I just got here and my roommates are out working the night shift so I have the apartment to myself. The apartment is really nice and even equip with a washer and drier! I am doing lots of laundry right now. I managed to get to the ocean before the sun set tonight and it is so beautiful I almost cried! The place is only a 10min walk to a little beach! I am starting surveys tomorrow morning at 5:45am so I might have to make this a little short..... I am sorry that [View Full Entry]

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From Vegas hotel to the Grand Canyon campsite! The photos speak for themselves! We did a 4 hour hike in the middle of the day, next time, we will get up much earlier. [View Full Entry]

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Escape from Snow Mountain, The Meltdown! Notes from the lazy author: 1) Okay--- I have neglected my duties and confused many people in the interim. People had a hard time reading the blog and believing I was not actually still in the cities I was writing about, even when I was face to face with them. It was kind of like realizing that all television shows were not LIVE and that the people did not live in the TV. It is the 21st century folks! 2) I am glad I decided to start this before taking any courses, because I [View Full Entry]

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