{"id":2146,"date":"2013-06-16T08:55:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T12:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2013-06-29T21:09:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T01:09:48","slug":"grand-canyon-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/16\/grand-canyon-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Canyon again"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first time we went to the Grand Canyon, back in November last year, we went by train. That was a great experience, but the downside of the train is that you are left to walk the rim. The Grand Canyon is HUGE and walking for half an hour doesn’t change the perspective much.<\/p>\n

So this time we drove. The south rim is about an hour from Williams and it is an easy, flat route. Once we got there we stopped at the main visitor’s center, which is just a bit northeast of the train depot and Grand Canyon Village where we visited in November. We spent about 30 minutes at the rim at the visitor’s center, then drove about 10 miles east along the rim, stopping at various overlooks to take some photos. It was a beautiful day and the canyon was looking fine.<\/p>\n

But, as Jett says, “It still doesn’t look real.”<\/p>\n

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View from the Visitor’s Center<\/p><\/div>\n

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Jett at the Visitor’s Center<\/p><\/div>\n

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Looking east from the rim at the Visitor’s Center<\/p><\/div>\n

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Looking down – yikes!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Just gorge-ous<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hiking this would be… interesting<\/p><\/div>\n

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I love these rock formations<\/p><\/div>\n

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A popular viewpoint<\/p><\/div>\n

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Love those colors!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sparky at the Grand Canyon<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sheer drop<\/p><\/div>\n

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Awesome<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Vishnu Temple<\/p><\/div>\n

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Our last view before heading back<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first time we went to the Grand Canyon, back in November last year, we went by train. That was a great experience, but the downside of the train is that you are left to walk the rim. The Grand Canyon is HUGE and walking for half an hour doesn’t change the perspective much. So … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,4,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places-az","category-places","category-qte"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-yC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2200,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions\/2200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}