Blogs from Grand Canyon, Arizona, United States, North America - page 6

Heading west through New Mexico toward Arizona, we decided to follow a highway sign to check out “The Petrified Forest National Park”. An excellent detour right off route 40. Matt and I imagined traveling across these lands for the first time and happening upon these wide dark canyons- you simply can’t tell they're there until you’re right upon them. A short drive in the park brings you through 13,000 years of history- petrogylphs and late Triassic fossils. At one stop we found an incredible landscape laden with stump after stump of colorful petrified wood. This ‘wood’ is now almost solid quartz, and weighing in at 168 pounds per cubic foot, it can only be cut with a diamond tipped saw. Insane, and hard to believe until you run your hands across it. Continuing on we arrived ... read more

On Thursday at noon, I arrived at Flagstaff airport. The airport is very small, and within no time I had picked up my suitcase and my rental car. It was a beautiful, but cold and windy day. My first visit took me up to the Lowell Observatory up on Mars Hill, just above Flagstaff. I will write more on this little trip soon, but now I will start with one of the most spectacular places I have ever been to: the Grand Canyon. It is located about 1.5 hours north of Flagstaff. You drive through the San Francisco Mountains, then a plain opens up, and suddenly, almost out of nothing, the ground drops 1,500 metres in front of you. I had arrived at the Grand Canyon. The canyon is enormous. It is over 400 km long, ... read more

Once again, not so much to tell today, it was a full day of driving. Our first stop was at Walmart, which should have been a pretty normal stop, except for Bruno who decided to drive a shopping scooter around, and Tom who bought a moomoo (if youve seen the episode of the Simpsons where Homer gets really fat you'll know what I'm talking about) Our next stop was Seligman, which is apparently the birthplace of Route 66. There was a shop and some memorabilia, but it was really not exciting at all. Our last stop before the Canyon was to see an Imax film. It was really crap and most people slept through it. Once we finally arrived at the Canyon we stopped at a lookout for a while before we arrived at our lodge. ... read more

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Another night of not much sleep. I was in time for the bus this time, however, the bus driver told me I was not able to take my luggage with me. And I had just checked out. This got me worried. But I sorted it fast; I had no other option. I had to go back to the hostel dorm, knock on the door (luckily others were awake at the time), and I had to ask them to watch over it for me. The roommate Cyril, from London, just said to leave it here, it will be fine. I was just a little concerned because I had already checked out - but like I said, I had no other choice. So I left my luggage behind, and headed back to the bus, getting ready to tour ... read more