A quick flight through part of the Grand Canyon then back to the runway. Testing out some graphic settings in FSX and new TrackIR4 flight profile.

I am pretty cranky. Talking about some riding I did last night and talk about my close call with a stupid cager.

YouTubers “LifeJourneyGuy” and England’s “Ajdpadbury” (aka Anthony) headed out from Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago to check out “Grand Canyon West” and the “Skywalk”. We had a GREAT time!!!! Here’s   more...the info on the skywalk from the official website (http://destinationgrandcanyon.com/skywalk.html):

“The Glass Bridge Construction of the Skywalk began March of 2004 and will open March 28, 2007.

“Upon completion, the Glass Bridge will be suspended 4,000 feet above the Colorado River on the very edge of the Grand Canyon. On May 2005, the final test was conducted and the stucture passed engineering requirements by 400 percent, enabling it to withstand the weight of 71 fully loaded Boeing 747 airplanes (more than 71 million pounds). The bridge will be able to sustain winds in excess of 100 miles per hour from 8 different directions, as well as an 8.0 magnitude earthquake within 50 miles. More than one million pounds of steel will go into the construction of the Grand Canyon Skywalk.”

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To get to and from the Skywalk, it requires you to drive on 28 miles of VERY dusty dirt road with sections of fairly deep gravel and “washboard” surfacing, so after again reaching the “land of paved roads”, I pulled over and wiped the dirt off my SUV, and we visited with two really adventurous Harley riders from Alaska who had done the dirt road on their big Harleys! I’ve been a motorcyclist for 38 years, but would only wanna do THAT road on a off-road type DIRT bike!!

No cameras of ANY kind are allowed ON the Skywalk, and it’s difficult (and becoming INCREASINGLY difficult) to even film the Skywalk while OFF the structure, so just be aware of that if you plan to visit this unique structure, because most of your memories of your visit will be IN your memory!! You can tho’ buy commemorative photos, taken by Skywalk employees, of yourself on the Skywalk, but, if I recall correctly, those photos start at around $26, so Anthony and I stood off to the side of the Skywalk, and used our camera zoom lenses instead! Also, it costs a minimum of $74.95 per person to walk on the Skywalk, so we considered it a “once in a lifetime” kinda experience, but the view FROM the Skywalk, and the view THROUGH the TOTALLY “SEE-THROUGH” type WALKWAY SURFACE of the Skywalk below your feet to the ground thousands of feet below was WELL worth it!, altho’ we noticed that quite a few people experienced a DEFINITE fear of heights once they’d look down and see “nothing” supporting them! LOL

The song is “You Can Go Your Own Way” by Chris Rea.  less

6 minute "HIKE" into the Grand Canyon along the Bright Angel Trail from the South Rim down to the Colorado River and to Phantom Ranch.

The video-clip shows sections of the trail compiled from   more...my ENTIRE BRIGHT ANGEL TRAIL SERIES (10.7 mile trail in 5 hrs. 22 min. on 6 DVDs), at TrailVista.com  less

10 minute VIDEO-HIKE into the Grand Canyon along the Bright Angel Trail from the South Rim down to the Colorado River and to Phantom Ranch.

The video-clip shows sections of the trail compiled from my ENTIRE   more...BRIGHT ANGEL TRAIL SERIES (10.7 mile trail in 5 hrs. 22 min. on 6 DVDs), at TrailVista.com  less

2 minute VIDEO-HIKE along the South Kaibab Trail from Grand Canyon's South Rim down to the Colorado River, to the Phantom Ranch, and then back up again.

The video shows sections of the trail, compiled   more...from my ENTIRE SOUTH KAIBAB TRAIL down SERIES (7.4 mile trail in 3 hrs. 39 min. on 4 DVDs), at TrailVista.com. The "up" scenes are from my South Kaibab Trail up series  less

2 minute VIDEO-HIKE along the South Kaibab Trail from Grand Canyon's South Rim down to the Colorado River and then across the Black Suspension Bridge to the Phantom Ranch.

The video shows sections of   more...the trail, compiled from my ENTIRE SOUTH KAIBAB TRAIL SERIES (7.4 mile trail in 3 hrs. 39 min. on 4 DVDs), at TrailVista.com  less

2 minute VIDEO-HIKE on the upper sections of the North Kaibab Trail from Grand Canyon's North Rim down through the Red Wall. The video is from my ENTIRE "Step-by-Step" NORTH KAIBAB TRAIL SERIES   more...(14.2 mile trail in 6 hrs. 22 min. on 6 DVDs), at TrailVista.com  less

Road Trip The Foursome took to Arizona, Grand Canyon, The Castle, Toombstone, May'06

Put them together and what do you get? This is a compliation of videos put together from photos taken by the NEAR-Shoemaker probe. The Music is "Painted Desert" from the Grand Canyon Suite by   more...Grofe'. The final animation depicts the landing of NEAR-Shoemaker on the surface of Eros  less

Take a tour through America's heartland.

Good news! The National Park service is not being forced by the Bush Administration to lie to the Grand Canyon Park visitors about the age of the Grand Canyon being less than 2500 years old as the Bible   more...would suggest.
The Bad news is politicians are striving to change the laws and ban the teaching of evolution in the public schools and replace it with “Creationism”. Some of them actually believe that the Earth does NOT revolve around the Sun, it a Jewish conspiracy! Oh here we go again with the Jews!  less

I just wanted to share a few of the many hundreds of photos of "Mother Nature's Work" that I've taken while wandering around the Southwest on my motorcycles over the years . . . the photos show   more...such places as Monument Valley, Grand Canyon, Canyonlands National Park, Bryce Canyon, and Death Valley National Park.

The music I chose for this video is the song "Invisible Friend", by a really talented Norwegian singer Christine Guldbrandsen, that almost nobody has heard of in the USA (we miss out on some BEAUTIFUL music over here!!; thankfully I’ve got great friends who can get it for me (you know who you are! LOL)) . . . maybe I’m kinda prejudiced because I’m half Norwegian, but I think a lot of Nordic and other Northern European music has a unique feel of antiquity, grandeur, vitality, and a hard-to-describe “haunted” quality to it, that evokes images of vast fjords, ancient castles, vistas that “go on forever”, etc., so to me at least, this type of music seems to go really well with these photos of “Mother Nature’s creations”, that were carved out long, long, long, long before mankind ever stepped foot on this continent . . .  less

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an origional song by ourmusicplus

http://www.OnlineSecretsTour.com Fun times viewing amazing sights at Grand Canyon West and Grand Canyon South Rim. Beautiful and fun place to visit in Arizona; definitely must see and must do.

http://www.OnlineSecretsTour.com Fun times viewing amazing sights at Grand Canyon West and Grand Canyon South Rim. Beautiful and fun place to visit in Arizona; definitely must see and must do.

http://www.OnlineSecretsTour.com Fun times viewing amazing sights at Grand Canyon West and Grand Canyon South Rim. Beautiful and fun place to visit in Arizona; definitely must see and must do.

http://www.OnlineSecretsTour.com Having some fun with Xan and a friend's dog in Dallas, Texas. Do not sing "Rock-a-bye Baby" to this dog! Funny!! Watch what happens; Xan isn't ready for it!

http://www.OnlineSecretsTour.com Fun times viewing amazing sights at Grand Canyon West and Grand Canyon South Rim. Beautiful and fun place to visit in Arizona; definitely must see and must do.

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