Health and What?
Another day at Grand Canyon, this time visiting the eastern section of the South Rim. The freebie buses don’t go on that route so Ma and Pa were back in the Chevrolet. An early start meant the road was quiet and stop-off points were quiet too. It was a littler cloudier than yesterday which muted the colours of the mighty Canyon. Honestly, you’d think it was actually trying to impress.
But still...
‘It’s health and safety gone Ma-a-a-d’, said no one, ever, at Grand Canyon. No fences? Really, people? The national parks seem to have taken the view that visitors will surely see that edges of canyons are jolly dangerous, so there’s no need for fences or warning signs. Let’s see how that’s going.
And the warning signs about mountain lions. Beside the picnic tables? Ma and Pa were lucky to get out alive.
Anyhoo, here are a few factoids which just might make all the difference to your placing in your next pub quiz: the Grand Canyon is 280 miles long. That’s the distance from Edinburgh to Birmingham. It’s up to 18 miles wide. And every year an average of 12 people die. Mostly from, er, falling off edges.
But now Ma and Pa are packing up to leave the snazzy Grand Canyon Plaza Hotel in the morning and head back to Colorado. They know that the journey is just as important as the destination, because it said so on a coaster in the gift shop. But in the case of the Grand Canyon, the destination really, really was the thing.
But still...
‘It’s health and safety gone Ma-a-a-d’, said no one, ever, at Grand Canyon. No fences? Really, people? The national parks seem to have taken the view that visitors will surely see that edges of canyons are jolly dangerous, so there’s no need for fences or warning signs. Let’s see how that’s going.
And the warning signs about mountain lions. Beside the picnic tables? Ma and Pa were lucky to get out alive.
Anyhoo, here are a few factoids which just might make all the difference to your placing in your next pub quiz: the Grand Canyon is 280 miles long. That’s the distance from Edinburgh to Birmingham. It’s up to 18 miles wide. And every year an average of 12 people die. Mostly from, er, falling off edges.
But now Ma and Pa are packing up to leave the snazzy Grand Canyon Plaza Hotel in the morning and head back to Colorado. They know that the journey is just as important as the destination, because it said so on a coaster in the gift shop. But in the case of the Grand Canyon, the destination really, really was the thing.
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