The Canyon of all Canyons This morning we got up at around 8am, leisurely making our way to the Grand Canyon national park. It’s about 80mi from Flagstaff, and we got there at around 10:30am. Our first stop was at the local airport, to book ourselves a helicopter flight over the canyons. There were two types, the “short” (25-30min) which went from the south rim to the north rim and back, and the “long” which circled around and tracked both rims for a few miles before changing course (45-50min).Read more...
1000 miles in a day Leaving Dallas on Wednesday night at 10:30pm, we had fallen some 5 hours behind on our original schedule (thanks again, AA). We decided to clear the Dallas / Fort Worth area as much as we could and get us some shuteye ASAP. We ended up in Weatherford, TX, some 50 miles from DFW.
After breakfast at Waffle House we set the satnav to direct us to Midland, TX, where we were hoping to see some pumpjacks.Read more...
Rapid Incompetence - 5+5=10 This cup of “coffee” is very important to me. Today has been a wonderful display of bad luck. It started in the early morning and stayed with us like the odor of a dead skunk. This blog post will be sarcastic. It will be a display of bad language. The reason is that I just don’t know how to use good words to describe what happened to us today.Read more...
The horse in the hills After leaving the cramped plane and doing some exercises to get blood flowing again, we find ourselves in Rapid City Airport. A tiny place, compared to the ones we’ve seen on our trip so far (SFO (for Pim), JFK, DFW, DEN). It’s about 5pm mountain time when we land, so we’re worried car rental agencies may have already closed their offices for the day so we quickly head in their general direction.Read more...