This will be a short blog today as there’s not too much I can say in words about my day. I visited the Grand Canyon as a side trip from Route 66. About all I can say about it is it’s big, really big, I mean bigger than the next big hole in the ground. Really! Also it’s visually stunning and deep, very very deep. I’ll let the pictures tell the story on this one I think (by the way, no captions as I can’t think of that many ways of saying “A view of the Grand Canyon”!)

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I had a late start from Holbrook and did a quick tour of the town first to take some pics. My route today is mostly on the Interstate with a few quick trips off for short stretches. On one of them I did a trip up a dead end spur of the old road. It was quite depressing seeing all the closed businesses and then come to the end of the tarmac and see the old road become a dirt track

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