Ain't life Grand

Mr Button shook the red dust from his feet from the magnificent Monument Valley as we made our way to the Grand Canyon. We were staying in a ‘rustic’ cabin (though it wasn’t that rustic it had a coffee maker)! which was only a short walk to the south rim of the canyon and so we decided to go and watch the sunset. The canyon certainly lives up to it’s name, we had thought the Palo Duro canyon had been pretty impressive but the Grand Canyon is in another league it is so vast and deep, the play of shadows on the rocks is amazing and photographs don’t really do it justice. Mr Button was up for a hike but when he saw how far down it was he decided against it and he didn’t like the idea of riding down on a mule.

From here we went to Las Vegas stopping on the way at the hoover dam which was a huge manmade structure that was impressive in it’s own right against the back drop of the rocks that surrounded it. Las Vegas then appears as you drive over the hill the tall shining buildings, billboards and advertisements suck you in and you don’t really know where to look first. We had two days here and Mr Button....well as they say, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas so my lips are sealed......

Then onto Death Valley another natural marvel and one of the hottest places on earth. The landscape changes as you drive across death valley from dried out lakes to mountains of many hues and colours. Mr Button made a prickly friend or two along the way chinwagging with the locals about the lack of road runners (coyotes eat them - the cartoon lies - meep meep).