Days 3 and 4

Yesterday morning I woke up and drove about an hour and a half to get to the Grand Canyon, I saw a sign that said that there was a $25 vehicle fee for parking in the park which made me kinda bummed. I did manage to find a campsite outside of the park for only $10. Yay! I didn't have to sleep in my car! I drove into the small village outside of the park and saw that they had a "free shuttle" which I found out cost the same amount as the vehicle fee so I just decided to drive in. After learning this I was kind of frustrated, and there was pretty heavy traffic in the park and nowhere to park so I was thinking "why did I drive two hours out of the way and pay $25 for a big hole in the ground?!?!?!" but as I walked up to the canyon I was blown away at how amazing it was, I stood there in complete awe for a good half an hour before I decided to start walking along the southern ridge. I parked on the east side of the ridge then walked to the western part of the ridge, I think I took more pictures for other people than with my own camera. I got to the west side around 3 and found a trailhead, I didn't have anything better to do so I went for it and ended up at the bottom of the canyon 2 hours later. When I got to the bottom and realized that everyone else there was staying the night I realized that it's supposed to be a 12 hour hike to the bottom then back, about halfway back up I was kinda worried that it would get dark before I got to the top, and I would miss the sunset! so I hurried back up to the top. The round trip was supposed to take 12 hours...PSH! I did it in 4. and I made it in time to watch the AMAZING sunset.

Today I woke up at 8ish and was off by 9, I made it to Albuquerque in 8 hours and then 2 more up to a small town called Taos where I got a great meal thanks to my uncle Wally and I get to sleep in a bed tonight!