What a great adventure to the Grand Canyon. (Or, as they say here locally, Gran Cañon.) It is truly the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen. We did a little bit of biking on a trail where we weren’t supposed to bike (whoops) and didn’t wear helmets although we were supposed to (whoops). We did get to put our bikes on the cool bike rack on the front of the shuttle bus.

We took a ridiculously long, difficult hike down into the canyon. We turned around before we were angry, which is more than we could say about most of the rest of the visitors.

I’ll have to let the pictures say the rest! Great trip!

Check out all of the pics at http://www.onetwopi.com/pics/Day3/

After a day’s delay in Albuquerque, we’re headed off toward the Grand Canyon. We end up losing about half a day due to the maintenance delays. So, instead of 1.5 days at the Grand Canyon, well just have one day. If we really like it, maybe we’ll stay an extra day there and cut something short later in the trip.

Today we were stranded for most of the day; we dropped off our car at the Subaru dealership this morning. We didn’t see much of Albuquerque due to the fact that we didn’t have a car. We ate at this ridiculously gross greasy spoon for lunch and ended up eating more Pepto Bismol than we did food.

We headed out toward Williams, AZ (about four hours away from Albuquerque) at about 6:15 PM. The car seems to be running OK so far. Hopefully that will be the first and last incident.

After eating some gas station turkey sandwiches for dinner, we arrived in Williams at about midnight. We got set up and cleaned up and crashed. One, Two, and Pi all decided to share the (ridiculously) small bed with us. Very cozy.

Tomorrow morning it’s off to the Grand Canyon (about 1.5 hours north of Williams). We’ll get a good start in the AM and look forward to a full day.

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