The Grand Canyon and back towards LA

Toast and coffee in the hotel breakfast room and then out into the freezing car park surrounded by snow (sorry I've not seen this much all 'winter' it's been mostly t-shirt weather for me.) It took me about 45minutes to drive to the Grand Canyon Park Entrance and paid the $25 dollars to get in and park the car. The wind was howling across the car park and it was bitterly cold, there was huge piles of snow piled up at the sides where it had been piled up to clear the car park. I had to put on not only a jumper but a windproof jacket as well, I'm not used to this! I walked through to Mather Point which is one of the lookout points on the edge of the Canyon, and took a few photo's. I don't know whether I'm getting 'tourism weary' but I just felt like it was just a bloody big hole in the ground, and I just couldn't get over excited about it (and I was getting cold) I looked into the visitors centre and then went back to the car and decided to head off back towards LA. I called in at a Coffee Shop just outside the park for a warming coffee then back onto the road. The drive to LA took me back down the same Interstate Freeway as I had driven the other day and I suddenly realised that I was getting low on fuel, eventually I came across an exit with a fuel and restaurant after doing the last 20miles when I must have been running on fumes. Fueled up, both car and me I carried on and on along the Freeway eventually I got to Barstow and pulled off for a coffee, It was now dark again and I realised I had been driving for about 6 hours. I had a coffee at a McDonalds but just felt knackered so I booked into the Days Inn next door, It wasn't that cheep but I was too tired to start driving round to find somewhere else.

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