Road trip from SF to Mississippi

We left San Francisco on 2/09 and drove to the Grand Canyon, where we spent two days taking in the sights.

Jesse took a mule ride to the canyon floor. (Rollin, rollin, rollin, gee, my ass is swollen, rawhide! --Billy Crystal, City Slickers) I took the easy way out and helicoptered over the canyon.
















And yes, we did get up for the sunrise!!! This was a real coup with a teenager!

















It has been a real adventure and a grueling drive. I would not choose to do it again this way.

Tonight we are in Clovis NM after having visited Billy the Kid's grave (very anticlimactic). Tomorrow we enter Texas (hope we don't get shot by the VP) and will probably get to Abilene (wasn't there a song about Abilene???) When we need comic relief on the road, we just listen to the country stations.