Goodbye Page, Arizona!  We turned our car westward and southwards and headed towards the Grand Canyon.

Originally we had planned to camp overnight at the Grand Canyon, but 22oF / -5oC forecasts and our recent cold experience at White Sands made us rethink that idea pretty quickly.

Both Pokin and Nick had been to the Grand Canyon and both of them were underwhelmed during their last experience.  But since I’d never been, they took me just so I could see it with my own eyes even if we weren’t going to camp.  We got in from the east entrance and drove westward along the Grand Canyon park road.

I liked it.  I could see myself soaring over those canyons.

We started at Dessert View, which was actually the nicest since you could see the river.  We then stopped at various other points that we could drive to along the way.

By the time we got to the main Mather Point viewpoint I was already more interested in the wildlife and how they just didn’t give a hoot about the tourists gathered around.

Well I’m glad we got  a taste of it.  We could have taken the mandatory shuttle bus to see the rest of the viewpoints, but Nicholas had the idea of going straight to Vegas instead.  Vegas yeah!  Let’s go!