Simon & Caroline's World Tour 07/08

After an early (ish) swim we set off on the long long long road to the Grand Canyon (it's almost 300 miles!) That's ok though as Si is happy driving his automatic (it's not really driving is it, just holding the wheel straight?!) and thanks to the wonders of Walmart (it really is a great place!) we can now listen to my ipod rather than the yee haw American country radio. We stopped at the Hoover Dam which didn't have a lot of water in it (Nevada is in droubt conditions - probably in some part due to their water spraying out of every building cooling method!) Shortly after that we had a worrying 23 miles or so where the car was so empty it was running on fumes. The A/C was off, and speed dropped to conserve fuel! (Thanks to Dad for years of fuel saving tips :-) - Si) Luckily we made it to the petrol station - a bit sweaty but still intact! It's hard to believe in a country as dependant on fuel as the US you can go for 60 miles without a fuel pump and then you hit 10 within a mile! Anyway enough ranting, air con was then back on for the rest of the journey!

Fortuitously, we arrived at Grand Canyon just before sunset, the red and brown colours created by the setting sun were amazing, even more so as we will be gone before the next sunset, makes you realise what a whistlestop tour this is!