This entry is for a scrapbook page of the Grand Canyon that I'm working on. The incident happened 6 years ago, so I'm a little sketchy on the details.

The South Rim was very hot and crowded. One day we wanted to check out all the viewpoints along Hermit Road. During the summer cars are not permitted along this road, so you have to catch a bus from point to point. We set off early in the day for this little adventure and happily jumped on and off buses. Somewhere along the line we got a bus that took us back to the start instead of the next point, so we thought we’d just stay on the bus and repeat the loop then continue on to where we left off. Well, it turned out that the bus driver wasn’t going to let us stay on. We were kicked off and told to get in the end of the line of passengers who were now waiting to get on. This seemed to be Brian’s last straw in tolerating the South Rim, so he immediately said he wanted to leave the Grand Canyon. This was fine by me since I had had enough of all the crowds and noise. A few hours later, we were on the road. We decided that since we would be leaving early that it would be possible to swing by Houston, Texas for a ballgame. So the swing was a bit out of the way, but it was an adventure trying to get to Houston in time for the game. We were practically driving through the night, doing all kinds of silly stuff to try and stay awake in the car, but we made it!

# posted by Christine : 12:39 PM