Leigh & Katie - Grand Canyon

Slow relaxing day

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October 4th 2007
We were all woken up this morning by a train passing through Williams at 3am using his extremely loud horn. This then happened again at 4am, 5am, 6am, 7am (I think you probably get the picture!) So by 8am we were all up and about getting ready to head back towards Albuquerque. Just as we left to load the car a thunderstorm joined us, and it absolutely poured down. We drove about an hour down th ... read more

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