O T: I just got back from the Grand Canyon......

[RitchieDarling]

And all I can say is DAY-UM!

No picture you have ever seen does it justice! You have to see it for yourself. I was speechless! And THAT rarely happens!

Checked out the IMAX movie as well.... Patty got vertigo!

Ok, I'm done now.........


Ritchie

 

[midopa]

Did you go to the glass deck thingy over there?

 

[RitchieDarling]

No....it's way out on the Hualapai Reservation. No paved roads. My car just isn't designed for it.

Besides, it's like $40 just to get into the damned park, then a further $20 per person for the walk.

Anyway, I have no desire to walk on it. Without a parachute, that is!

And my wife and daughter would just puke!


Ritchie

 

[maddog]

How long you been in AZ!?!

Went there many moons ago. It is so immense, I felt like I was looking at a painting of it. Really tough to comprehend.

 

[Oh! Henry]

No kidding!!!

Last summer I took road trip from from Montreal to Las vegas, with a spectacular stop at Grand Canyon among other places. It truly is an amazing piece of sculpture. Although nowhere near as big, I think Zion national Park was by far the most spectacular, and amazing stop of my trip. There is so much beauty in that neck of the woods, I've gotsta go back soon!!!

 

[RitchieDarling]

How long you been in AZ!?! .

I don't get out much! The last time I went to Phoenix was when your icon picture was taken!

R

 

[Bartmanpdx]

I've been there before.

Simply put, it is the biggest damn thing I've ever seen. That's why pictures don't do it justice -- you have to see it in 3-D to get a grip on how absolutely huge it is. Nothing else comes close.

I've also been to the Victoria Falls in Zambia, which is a mile-wide waterfall, and is very impressive, but the Grand Canyon blows everything else away with its mind-boggling enormity.

 

[Strangeglow]

I want to walk on the glass deck. Looks like good fun.

 

[Psycho Ward]

I like that episode of Buggs Bunny where he filled the Grand Canyon with dirt in an effort to raise the bounty on rabbits.

Glad you had fun Richie.

 

[Aussie Mark]

Did you go to the glass deck thingy over there?

They showed that thingy on the news here during the week. What a travesty. They might as well have let grafitti artists go crazy with spraypaint cans and let people build condos hanging from the canyon walls. What's next, painting the Great Wall of China purple?

 

[RitchieDarling]

Hmmmmmmmmm.........

Well, they could have just put up a casino instead.

It's not in the national park. It's on the Hualapai Reservation. 90 miles away.

Seriously out of the way. The roads aren't even paved.

And it is their land after all. White people came along and killed most of them off.

Then shoved the rest onto the most barren land they could find. And it is in the middle of nowhere.

Peach Springs is little more than a slum in the desert.

The way I see it. They built something that allows an interesting view of the canyon.

They even painted it to match the canyon rocks.

Instead of this: http://www.sharlot.org/archives/maps/images/pb40f5i11.jpg

The Yavapai Tribe is expanding the casino as I speak.

What you can't see is the mini casino (only 2.6 acres) right across the road at the bottom of the hill!

I would much rather look at the skywalk.

If you want to see a REAL travesty. Check out Sedona sometime. If you can find it among all the tourist traps.

Ritchie

 

[Aussie Mark]

White people came along and killed most of them off.

Then shoved the rest onto the most barren land they could find.

So did we, but at least your guys got a picturesque canyon to live near

 

[Strangeglow]

Didn't your guys get a big rock?

 

[Caca de Kick]

My sister-in-law lives in the Grand Canyon...her kids call it the big hole.
Her husband is a search and rescue EMT there, and the view from their backyard fence is pretty much a straight drop.