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Friday, October 24, 2008, near the Grand Canyon, Arizona
We got a pretty late start from the Reynolds' house because of cleaning and packing the van. We finally left at around 11:00 am. The weather was great, sunny and calm. We saw some buffalo in a field. There were a few downhill runs that taxed our brakes, so I had to stop and let them cool for a while. Later in the evening we ended up in Durango, Colorado, at a McDonald's. McCain had been in town for a presidential rally so there were many supporters there and some who were Obama fans. Some stupid girls who were Obama supporters wrote obscenities on their arms against McCain and were flaunting them in peoples faces as they walked past inside of McDonald's. So I told them what I thought of their appearance and intelligence, but didn't waste too much time with them. Like the old saying goes, " A bear can whup a skunk, but it ain't worth it." We ended up driving a lot that night. We stopped at Four Corners (where Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona meet at one point) but couldn't go in because it was already closed. We ended up driving all the way to the edge of Grand Canyon National Park and spent the night sitting up in the van by a gift store parking lot at 3:00 am.