Tuesday, November 11, 2008

The Grand Canyon State

Enter Flagstaff, 7:30 PM; no, wait... The cell phone says 6:30?! That doesn't sound right, I wasn't supposed to cross another time zone for hundreds of miles!

So apparently, Arizona doesn't "do" the whole Daylight Savings "thing." Which is great in Spring - I know "Daylight Savings" becomes a muttered curse-word in my vernacular. But it will be an awful pain when California 'falls back' and I'm an hour behind again.

I have family in Arizona, which is wonderful. My Aunt and Uncle also have a house in Flagstaff, so this was a great check-point for me. A place to get some sound sleep after almost a week in the desert, to recoup and make plans with my kin. I also had to decide whether to shoot up to the Grand Canyon before going down to Tempe to see the relatives.

I've been there before when I was a kid, so there was no real pressure to go see this amazing thing for the first time; but I rationed that I would be looking into the 'grand' expanse with much different eyes than the last time, and what the hell, it's only an hour up the road.

The road from Flagstaff

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