We slept in late in our super comfortable beds. We gathered ourselves and headed over to the cafeteria in the lodge to get breakfast. It was really really expensive, but I suppose that's expected at a National Park. The we went to the gift shop to get t-shirts. We tried to look as touristy as possible, but it's hard to compete with the people here.
We went back to the room and I got a shower. We checked our route from here to Los Angeles (exciting!) and made sure we had hotel options. We decided on what we were shipping home, and rode down to the post office. I shipped all of my camping stuff (tent, sleeping bag and sleeping pad,) plus my back bag, which also had a handful of stuff in it. So now we're riding super ultra light. I'm down to just two bags with the bare minimum in them. Then we got lunch, went bag to the room to drop the bikes off, and walked down to the canyon's edge to catch a bus that would bring us to the good viewing places.
The canyon truely is, well, grand. I expected it to be amazing, but it still surpassed all of my expectation. It really is a see-it-to-believe-it kind of place. We snapped a ton a amazing pictures.
At one of our first stops, we got to talking with a group of kids. One of them suggested a brilliant picture, so we took that. We found out shortly that this group was actually two group who were just hanging out. We boarded our bus with one of them, our new friend Robert. He plays football at Coastal Carolina, and was in Arizona helping a friend move. He'd decided to take a day at the Grand Canyon, much like we were doing. We spent the rest of the day with Robert, which was great. It's nice to have more than one person to interact with out here.
After all of the stops we went to get dinner before reboarding a bus to watch the sunset. We ended up missing our bus by about one minute. Bummer. We ended up watching it from a different spot, and all was well with the world.
Robert came back to our room for a few minutes so he could borrow Jason's phone charger so that he could call his mom. We hung out for a few minutes longer, and then he left to drive back to Flagstaff to his friends new apartment.
We watched some television and booked our flights home. Wednesday, July 20th at 11:35am we will be on an AirTrans flight home. Now it's back to the road on our final stretch to the Pacific Coast.
Tomorrow: Seligman, AZ.
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