Nothing really prepares you for when you look out from the south rim of the Grand Canyon - it's a cliche but it really is awe-inspiring..... and you do look at it and think this has been here millions of years longer than we have and so on. Did you have to pay more to fly in and out of different airports and pick up and drop the car separately?
I had the very good fortune of sitting on the south rim, off the beaten track and away from the massed tourists, with my legs dangling over the edge in the searing sunshine whilst just 10 miles away on the north rim a lightning storm raged. It was mesmerising. Sadly, the photos I took of that were crap!
It's the scale that continually got to me. I did a parachute jump at the northern end of Canyonlands National Park and to look down on this vast wilderness that seemed to go on forever was one of those moments that reminds you of just how small and insignificant you really are.
Cost me much the same for return flights from different cities as it would have cost from the same. As for the car, there was a $100 charge for drop off in a different location.
