This is our last scenic stop on the bus tour, after a previous brief visit to Duck Rock (which unfortunately lost its beak in the 90's). We are at the farthest vantage point eastward on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, and it certainly offers an encompassing view westward of "the big hole in the ground" (as our tour driver Frank calls it).
Frank is from Brooklyn, and has driven tours here for around four years, having done tour jobs for NASA and other national attractions for many years prior. He retired from being a power plant operator in a nearby town, and as he puts hit he and his wife "have been homeless for sixteen years." They travel all over in their solar-powered motorhome, taking tour jobs in the summer and just relaxing the rest of the year. He has accumulated a lot of knowledge about the canyon and life in general, which he shares with us as an even-paced and delightfully humorous patter.
We are headed back to the Village now, perfect timing since I'm starting to get hungry and the depot has our box lunches.
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