At the Canyon

Come one over folks, let me push you into the canyon... 12 seconds to the bottom

Narrow gorges run deep

What I hoped to do...

The shadows look like people...

Ok, no camera can capture the beauty of a set of rocks... at least not phone cameras (or is that camera-phones?) So no more shots of the Canyon at sunrise, sunset, and all points of day though I have it. A Pink Floyd song captures the kind of feeling:

There's no sensation to compare with this,

Suspended animation, a state of bliss...

Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies,

Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earthbound misfit, I

Next stop: El Tovar, where I had an amazing breakfast of smoked trout, eggs and fruit, unlimited coffee after my 'long' walk on the Rim trail. (I walloped the food before the thought of commemorating the presentation for posterity crossed my head. Taste I can't yet record with mobile device. (Awesome... the food. $15 with tip, but who has smoked trout for breakfast everyday?)

Hopi House, across the El Tovar

Lookout Studio

About 400 pictures, but I will refrain. Just this little birdie (how I wished my phone transformed into a Nikon SLR or some such to capture the blue and the flight).

Ok, I couldn't resist... a parting shot

Should go back again. Next time, I will hire 'friends' to go hiking down the canyon and back to the top. And steal some camera worth its salt to capture the night sky constellation and all that. 

FYI, got a postcard of the Canyon and lost it. Promptly (aargh adverb). I figure the reason for the losing and not regretting was that the photographer was an Indian (non-American)  dude ...some Singh.

P.S. Of all the places in the world, I had to be stuck on a shuttle bus from Mather Point to Abyss with this family chattering real loud in Tamil, and their two crying babies (twins I assume). 

P.P.S. Come to think of it, I think there's some conspiracy afoot. Two days at the Canyon taking in the views, and my auditory nerves were assaulted with Telegu, Punjabi, Hindi and Tamil. The best of North and South I suppose.

P.P.P.S. The place is big, and traveling alone has the advantage that you can run or amble depending on your brain signals without it being interfered / compromised by another's.