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Mar. 22nd, 2010 08:59 pmI GOT TO FLY IN A HELICOPTER TODAY AND SIT UP FRONT WITH THE PILOT. (My inner Reno was SO HAPPY!*)
Also, I got to fly in a small plane, although I didn't sit up in front with the pilot but I would have liked that. (My innerSpike Alex Gren flyboy was SO HAPPY! And how fortuitous that I've been studying small plane cockpit controls, thank you Outpost 12; I knew what was going on. Timing is everything.)
Oh, and I also got to go to this insignificant little place:
...I wasn't expecting to get to the Grand Canyon until late Thursday afternoon, but this was a surprise trip. We... uh... took the small plane from Sedona to the so-called West Rim, which is the only place helicopters are allowed into the canyon (two things explained already!). We flew the helicopter into the canyon at Eternity and then we took a pontoon boat ride up the Colorado River a way before turning around and coming back, and taking the helicopter back up and out through Quartermaster Canyon, then we drove out onto this spit in the middle of the canyon and went on the Skywalk, which is a little freaky when you realize you're looking down through glass 4000 feet to the river below.
Yeah.
I'll upload my own pictures when I get home. Apparently I don't have the right cables with me, but they're somewhere, I just know it.
And oh, yeah. We fed some ravens. Lots of ravens. Crafty things, they are.
*If you really want to know, it kind of scares me that I have an inner Reno.
Also, I got to fly in a small plane, although I didn't sit up in front with the pilot but I would have liked that. (My inner
Oh, and I also got to go to this insignificant little place:
...I wasn't expecting to get to the Grand Canyon until late Thursday afternoon, but this was a surprise trip. We... uh... took the small plane from Sedona to the so-called West Rim, which is the only place helicopters are allowed into the canyon (two things explained already!). We flew the helicopter into the canyon at Eternity and then we took a pontoon boat ride up the Colorado River a way before turning around and coming back, and taking the helicopter back up and out through Quartermaster Canyon, then we drove out onto this spit in the middle of the canyon and went on the Skywalk, which is a little freaky when you realize you're looking down through glass 4000 feet to the river below.
Yeah.
I'll upload my own pictures when I get home. Apparently I don't have the right cables with me, but they're somewhere, I just know it.
And oh, yeah. We fed some ravens. Lots of ravens. Crafty things, they are.
*If you really want to know, it kind of scares me that I have an inner Reno.
