Vacation day 4, Going to the Grand Canyon

About ten minutes north of Phoenix we hit some rough traffic. There'd been an accident and we crawl along for about an hour. I got a lot of photos and videos of the cacti along that piece of road though. The big cacti with the arms only grow where it always stays above freezing so by the time we were an hour north of Phoenix, there were none left (noting of course that it took us well over two hours to go that distance). We took a couple rest stops, argued about whether or not the GPS was correct (why would a computer lie?) and ended up at the Canyon at 5:00. It is pretty cool. A mile deep, we watched the sun set on it.  Ate a nice meal at the steak house (I had the triple meat), awesome deserts (lava cake and a cheesecake with prickly pear topping), and looked at the stars (it is a light preserve here so you can see an amazing number of stars).

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