From one natural wonder to another. The Grand Canyon is a place i'd always wanted to visit. I mean it's just that place everyone thinks of when you mention the US's national wonders, and as you pull up to the parks entrance you can tell that this place gets the majority of traffic over it's neighboring parks. Here there's multiple information centers, tarmac roads, viewing stations...hell there's even a post office to send off your freshly bought postcards.
I quite liked the whole "go off and explore" nature of Monument valley but there you go.
Not like this distracted from what is unquestionably an amazing natural place and what are some amazing views. What did take away from it though was the gradual decline in weather, and the introduction of snow in the desert.
It all started fine but as we pulled into the last viewing stations the clouds had begun to descend and by the very last post the visibility had dropped to a matter of feet. If i hadn't of gotten a clear view in the morning i'd of been royally pissed. But as we had there was something highly entertaining about having one of the worlds greatest sites completely hidden in cloud :)
We didn't stick around long after the view had practically disappeared and anyway we'd booked a hostel for the night in Vegas and wanted to get there in decent time.
On the way we came up to the hoover dam, now I didn't even know we where going to be crossing it until Will mentioned it about a mile away, so it was quite a nice surprise. It's also a shock to how big the thing is. I wasn't expecting it to be as impressive as it was at all! We'd got there pretty quick as well, so we took the time to chill out a bit and stretch our legs, take some photo's and just enjoy the view.
*It's not long till we reach the dazzle of Vegas now, time to go make my millions...
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