We stopped and got coffee and water for the long journey, and filled up the car. Luckily we met some really nice people traveling the United States as well and they checked all of my fluids in my car to make sure we were all set to go. As we were leaving, we noticed a homeless person asking for food or money. Haley and I have always been taught to help others no matter what. We stopped and gave the man some money and the look on his face was priceless. Tears filled his eyes and he told us thank you as many times as he could before the light turned green and told us that god has blessed us for caring so much about other people. That meant a lot to my sister and me because we really just want to help other people and our mother and father taught us that from a very young age. Next time you see someone who needs help, take the time to help them, even if it is brief, they will appreciate it.
After traveling across many Indian reservations, we finally made it to Arizona and were ahead of schedule for the Grand Canyon. We were ahead because our mother had called us and told us not to stop at the Indian reservations. She said it wasn't safe, and just to make our mother happy and not freak her out, we didn't stop and just kept going to the Grand Canyon.
On our way there, we looked out into the vast land and saw all of these huge thunder storms and rain pouring miles away. It looked so close, as if you could get out of your car and stand under a rain cloud. But the desert is deceiving and those storms are actually miles away. We finally started to enter an area with trees!! Haley and I had been missing trees and were finally happy to see some type of normal vegetation. We saw a sign for the Grand Canyon, 50 miles away!
We got onto the road that long and almost all up hill but you could see so far into the distance. We were going to get there in time for the sun to start setting as we were so happy! As we kept driving we tried to see of we could spot the canyon and we couldn't. Were people lying to us? Was this really not that big? Where is it? How much longer? the anticipation was killing us.
We pull up to the ranger station to get into the canyon and we pay the $25 fee to get into the national park. Word to the wise, you can get a pass for all the national forests in the US for $80, but a since we didn't think we were going to go to that many, we got the $25 pass. That pass is good for 7 days for any park in the US as well. As we drove into the dense forest, we spotted an elk or something, Haley would know, just chilling near a camp sight and chewing on some trees. He was so big and beautiful but you could tell he was still really young. He didn't seem to mind at all that people were going up to him and checking him out.
We decided to park along the road and see if we could find the Grand Canyon. We got our cameras and phones and decided to go through the woods. Soon enough Haley and I both saw the tree line drop off and the most spectacular image we had ever seen in our lives. No matter how I describe this, you will never know what it looks like, how beautiful, and massive this place is unless you go there yourself. If there is any spot in the United States that you should see, it's the Grand Canyon!
The Canyon was so vast and huge! I had never seen anything that amazing before in my own country! As much as I loved the Swiss Alps, this was by far my favorite site because it was in the United States. There were vast canyons and large rivers looked like little streams because we were so high up. The clouds were beginning to role in and sun beams were shinning through the patches in the clouds down onto the top of the Canyon. We didn't have much time but we wandered around the south side of the Canyon for about an hour. There were so many different people form around the world checking out this amazing place. We noticed that there was a huge rain storm off in the distance and decided to take our last photos and keep moving on. These really nice French tourist took our photos and just as we made it back to our car, it began to rain.
The whole way back it was pouring and there were such huge flashes of lightening, it was kind of scary. But soon enough we made our way out of the thick forests' of Arizona and were on our way to Las Vegas Nevada to see what all the fuss was about.
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