This year we celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary and we wanted to do something to celebrate this milestone. Knowing that the whole family would be in Vegas in October for the Professional Bull Riders Finals (yes, you read that correctly), we decided to forgo the matching tattoos and take a helicopter trip to the Grand Canyon instead. After being ex-pats for over 10 years, we have been privileged to see a lot of the world. However, there are many places in our own country that we have never laid eyes on and none of us had seen this famous American landmark. After being in Vegas and seeing fake New York, fake Venice, fake Paris and a lot of fake Elvises, it was nice to see a part of America that was real and unspoiled.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. -Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
Monday, November 12, 2007
The Real Grand Canyon
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