Thanks for your info.
I went to the Grand Canyon just one year ago and I think it is spectacular.
As you say, it is not a hole in the ground.
I am sure that you'll love it!!
Xavier
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> TheNewsGuy(Mike) wrote:
>> PTravel wrote:
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>> > We've been there in late November. It was cold, but still fun.
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>> I am serious, not kidding. What was "fun"? [ I have asked this before]
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>> I am always amazed at the lengths visitors go to to get to see the
>> falls. I just don't get it. (I am a Toronto native and have been to the
>> falls scores of times and brought visitors there, too.) But I just
>> don't understand the fascination. I guess Parisians say the same thing
>> about the Eiffel Tour. But at least you are in Paris! LOL!
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> [quote]We found the Falls spectacular -- the scale is enormous, and the
> power represented by the Falls thrilling. We went into "Cave of the
> Winds" that put us directly behind the Falls, and let us stand directly
> adjacent to them.
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> We've never been this close to a waterfall remotely as powerful.
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> Note, too, that only spent two nights at the Falls. We ate out in nice
> restaurants each night. We visited the Falls during the day. We
> viewed the Falls at night. We visited a butterfly sanctuary. Two
> nights and a day were more than sufficient for us, but we're very glad
> we went.
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> We're going to the Grand Canyon this coming November. We don't think
> of it as just a big hole in the ground.
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> My wife and I are love to travel, particularly internationally. The
> world has a wealth of strange, interesting and exotic things to see,
> both natural and man-made. There is nothing we like better than to see
> them, and all of our discretionary income is devoted to that process.
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> I'm not sure if your point is that you live in the area and are inured
> to the Falls, or that you don't understand the attraction of impressive
> natural phenomena. If the former, I'm a former New Yorker. When I
> lived there, I never went up the Empire State Building, never went to
> the Statute of Liberty, or any of the other "tourist" types of things.
> I was always, however, impressed with the City, and always thought it
> grand, stark and magnificent. I'm suprised you wouldn't think the same
> of the Falls. If, on the other hand, your point was, "it's just a
> bunch of water," then I don't know how to respond to you at all. Some
> folks like art museums (we do), some don't. Some folks like going to
> sporting events (we don't). Some folks like theater (we do).
> Different strokes, I suppose.
>
> Do you like travel? What do you like to do when you travel?
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