Grand Canyon is grand!

We have been in a very windy Grand Canyon for nearly three days and have already done a lot.  The following photos will not do the beauty and grandeur justice but we did our best.

This is our sixth visit to Grand Canyon, all at the North Rim.  The first visit was on our honeymoon twenty five years ago and we later walked across the Canyon (24.2 miles) on Harold's 50th birthday.  (Did you know that of approximately six million visitors every year, only 1% actually go down into the Canyon beyond the rim?  We don't know what percent of that 1% walk it, but we feel privileged to have had such an intimate relationship with this international treasure).

The above photo shows the size of the formation with the people on top as a comparison.

Here is a quote from Theodore Roosevelt, who had a lot to do with the preservation of the Grand Canyon back at the beginning of the 20th century:  "Leave it as it is.  You can do nothing to improve it.  What you can do is keep it for your children, your children's children, and for all who come after you, as the one great sight which every American should see."

 

 

The Grand Canyon is the granddaddy of all national parks.  If you haven't seen it, you owe it to yourself to get here one day.  It is impossible to adequately describe, either with words or pictures, its grandeur.