Grand Canyon Trip & Photos

While we were in Vegas, TW and I decided it would be fun to pay for a Pink Jeep tour, which entailed getting into a Pink Suburban with 4 other people and a private tour guide.

It was a good time for the most part even though we were a bit tired of the old and tired jokes of Bob the Tour Guide. (Bob's the guy pointing...)



At 7:30, we left the Bellagio and hit the road after picking up the rest of the passengers.

The first stop was the Hoover Dam where we looked at it in an ooh and ahhh mode for about 15 minutes -- just enough time to relax and get it all in.



The road and time were our friend as we got history lessons in Lake Mead and a variety of other barren land trivia until we arrived in Dolan Springs, AZ where Bob informed us that many of them had no teeth and liked to live in the middle of nowhere with little water -- even though he didn't know why.

Yet... he still stopped there so we could pee.



After desolate and dirty Dolan Springs, we made our way to the first stop in our tour of the Grand Canyon -- this was after we travelled about 20 miles on a "dirt" road that is regularly graded with a bulldozer so it is full of ruts.

We were loaded on a bus and driven to the first of two stops at the Grand Canyon -- Eagle Point. (In the picture below, you can see why it is called that as one of the rock formations is in the shape of an eagle with its wings spread wide.)



The big draw at Eagle Point is the newly opened SKYWALK, which is a glass walkway that juts itself out over the Grand Canyon. We did it and have very few photos of the SKYWALK since we were not allowed to take our camera on the SKYWALK because they didn't want us dropping it on the glass and to get us to purchase a picture with the Indians on the landing. (In the picture below, it is tough to really see how far over the edge the walk goes because the fence hangs out there, but it was out there pretty darn far.



After Eagle Point, we were shipped on a bus to Guano Point -- named as such because it was a point where bat guano (poop) was mined as it had many different uses in the olde days.

In the picture below, I have blurred out TW's face, but it is a great illustration of where we ate lunch that day -- right on the frigging edge!



The view was spectacular... simply spectacular...





After the Guano Point, we were shipped back to our Suburban where we eventually made our way back to our hotel.

All in all, it was a fantastic 10.5 hours of new knowledge and incredible views of one of God's great creations.

Including this ram near the Grand Canyon... just hanging on the side of the road...