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Day Eight, flight to LA, Santa Monica
Read more: Day Eight, flight to LA, Santa MonicaAugust 9th 2014 – Day 8, flight to LA, Santa Monica So with a bit of a heavy heart we left Grand Canyon at 8:30 this morning. I drove us to Flagstaff airport and made full use of Cruise Control, as well as driving in sports mode, as there was a lot of gas in…
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Day Seven, Grand Canyon mule ride & Bright Angel trail
Read more: Day Seven, Grand Canyon mule ride & Bright Angel trailAugust 8th 2014 – Day 7, Grand Canyon mule ride & Bright Angel trail Oh, how I have been looking forward to this! I really wanted to ride a horse but there aren’t many in the Grand Canyon. Mules are more suited, temperamentally and physically, to the landscape. They can see their hind legs for…
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Day Six, Grand Canyon Desert and Hermit viewpoints
Read more: Day Six, Grand Canyon Desert and Hermit viewpointsAugust 7th 2014 – Day 6, Grand Canyon Desert and Hermit viewpoints Woke up at 6:10 and went for a run, Jeff was fast asleep so I went on my own, here it is. Won’t have time to run tomorrow (unless I go in the evening, mule ride first thing), then we leave the day…
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Day Five, Grand Canyon, Helicopter!
Read more: Day Five, Grand Canyon, Helicopter!August 6th 2014 – Day 5, Grand Canyon, Helicopter! Woke up at 6, nudged Jeff who said he didn’t want to go for a run, but he got up 10 minutes later and we went for the most scenic run ever. Here’s the run. The first half was very hard, due to altitude, but also,…
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Day Four, Grand Canyon
Read more: Day Four, Grand CanyonAugust 5th 2014 – Day 4, Grand Canyon Would have been the perfect night’s sleep, except Daniel’s alarm went off at 4:30, this had been set for Vegas and he forgot to turn it off. We left the lodge at 9:30 and got a bus to the Visitor centre, booked helicopter trip for tomorrow. Then…