Checking off a Bucket List Item
RB got the day off, a chance to set under the cool canopy of a parking deck while Momma and I rode a tourbus from Las Vegas to an old entry on my Bucket List–The Grand Canyon. We rode past Hoover Dam and the Colorado River while the driver gave us history of road construction around the dam and played a PBS documentary about the site’s construction. After a rather limited night’s sleep last night, I didn’t hear the entire film. The trip took us into Arizona–my first visit to the state. We had lunch in a small town then continued on to the canyon. Momma’s visited the canyon before, so she let me explore mostly on my own. We visited two sites on the canyon’s South side, so we missed the opportunity to walk out on the glass walkway–which is on the West rim–an opportunity I’d hoped I would…