We had only a few hours on the South Rim, having taken the shamelessly touristy Grand Canyon Railway from the town of Williams, returning the same day. It almost seemed the right thing to only get a relatively brief glimpse of it - how would you begin to go about exploring such a thing in depth, so to speak? The thing is 445km long, up to 29km wide, over 1500 metres deep and two billion years old.
Jerry described it as strangely oppressive, walking alongside it and having it always there, consuming half your field of vision. That one river could have scooped out such a stupendous chunk of the earth is really incomprehensible; you find yourself trying to imagine the time that work must have taken, but of course you try in vain.
Despite appearances, we had a crisp, clear, almost-warm day; perfect conditions for seeing such a wonder.
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